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The Country Girls

By: Edna O'Brien
Narrated by: Edna O'Brien
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It is the early 1960s in a country village in Ireland. Caithleen Brady and her attractive friend, Baba, are on the verge of womanhood and dreaming of spreading their wings in a wider world - of discovering love and luxury and liquor and above all, fun. With bawdy innocence, shrewd for all their inexperience, the girls romp their way through convent school to the bright lights of Dublin – where Caithleen finds that suave, idealised lovers rarely survive the real world.

©2010 AudioGO Ltd (P)1960 Edna Gebler Contemporary Fiction Drama & Plays Entertainment & Performing Arts European Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction World Literature Heartfelt Tear-jerking
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Fabulous story, but Edna O’Brien’s voice is so wrong for it. A real shame as it puts me off listening to the rest of the trilogy.

Authors should not read there own books

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I am glad that Edna O'Brien narrated the book as I think she did an excellent job. I was taken back in time to an old Ireland a world far apart from anywhere I had been to before. I did travel around a part of Ireland back in the 1970's and I remember how old fashioned and how narrow their world was. Yet to go back even further in time you can imagine how life would have been for young people and how confined they must have felt. Of the three books I really think this one is the best. I went onto listen to the others but the last one was quite disappointing.

Interesting and worth a listen

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The voice of the narrator and the purity of the story telling. I was beautiful

The story, so honest and real.

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the book should have been narrated by a young woman, but a good authentic story

book should have been narrated by a young woman

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Where does The Country Girls rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

My first audiobook, so nothing to compare but i loved it. Got it for long car journey in India, quite surreal listening and being enveloped in Ms O'Brians Irish lilt and soft atmosphere while seeing the colourful expanse of Indian life, especially in Delhi stuck in a traffic jam.

What did you like best about this story?

Her voice, the characters were very real to me

Which character – as performed by Edna O'Brien – was your favourite?

I loved both the girls

If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

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Beautiful, evocative voice of Ms O'Brian

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