The Lonely Girl by Edna O'brien

The Lonely Girl by Edna O'brien

'Surprising and beautiful and courageous .. A beacon.' Megan Nolan
'Novels of heart-breaking empathy, rigorous honesty and peerless beauty.' Eimear McBride

Caithleen 'Kate' Brady and Bridget 'Baba' Brennan are growing up in a repressive Irish village after World War II. Kate is a romantic, looking for love; Baba is a reckless survivor. After being expelled from convent school, they dream of the bright lights of Dublin - and are rewarded with bad luck and bad sex; marry for the wrong reasons; but continue to fight the expectations forced upon 'girls' of every era to become brave new women.

This is the second novel in Edna O'Brien's trilogy which revolutionised Irish literature in the 1960s. Banned by the authorities as 'indecent' and burned by the clergy, they were notorious for their frank portrayal of sexual desire: but scandal turned to fame, and made this glorious coming-of-age tale an instant classic that inspires and delights readers to this day.

Edna O'Brien wrote more than twenty prize-winning works of fiction, as well as plays and non-fiction, which have been translated into over thirty languages and awarded many literary honours. A trailblazing author, her debut novel The Country Girls was banned by the Irish censorship board in 1960 and publicly burned. Born and raised in the West of Ireland, O'Brien lived in London for many years before her death in July 2024.

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ISBN 13	9780571397914
ISBN 10	0571397913
Title	The Lonely Girl
Author	O"Brien Edna
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Faber And Faber Ltd.
Year published	2026-07-16
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