Bonus: World Book Club - Edna O'Brien
Edna O'Brien's first novel, The Country Girls, tells the story of two girls from rural Ireland growing up in a convent school before moving to Dublin to begin their adult lives.
In a bonus edition of World Book Club following the death of the acclaimed Irish author Edna O鈥橞rien, who died aged 93 in July 2024, we look back to an interview with Edna from 2008.
Edna O鈥橞rien was born in rural County Clare in 1930, and found her education by nuns suffocating. She moved to Dublin, and subsequently spent much of her life in London. The Country Girls tells the story of two girls from rural Ireland growing up in a convent school before moving to Dublin to begin their adult lives.
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