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The Country Girls
- Narrated by: Edna O'Brien
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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Summary
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.
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- Jon
- 07-07-13
Beautiful, evocative voice of Ms O'Brian
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
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- Supersadie
- 13-11-23
Evocative and beautifully written.
Started this as a sort of antidote to a surreal and violent Murakami novel. Found it at once absorbing, gentle and evocative of a time before my own. The characters' voices are wonderfully scripted in the gentle Irish brogue one might expect. This is all about the mores of the time, the way lives were lived, the relationship between individuals and what they had to do to get by; to remain in their expected roles or to break out and reinvent themselves. Love, loyalty, duty, the church; it's all there. Some reviewers didn't enjoy Edna O'brien reading her own work. It worked for me; some of the unusual pronunciations and the sound of breath during pauses seemed to add to the simplicity of the book.
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- Scott at the Junction
- 11-03-22
Brave, lyrical and sad beautiful.
it wasn't so long ago that women were trapped in their societal roles in the way Edna O'Brien describes. Ireland was even more conservative than England but the same strictures applied as they do to women now in patriarchal societies.
She bravely expressed her real experience despite everything and told a beautiful story.
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- Jules
- 19-04-20
Authors should not read there own books
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.
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- Veronika Leigh
- 03-06-21
Read By the Author
I normally really appreciate when Audiobooks are read by the author. That’s not to say I didn’t appreciate it this time around and although Edna narrates beautifully, her voice just isn’t the right fit.
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-05-19
book should have been narrated by a young woman
the book should have been narrated by a young woman, but a good authentic story
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- Richard Harrison
- 04-11-22
Interesting and worth a listen
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.
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- Suzi
- 05-03-15
A very impressive book but ends too quickly.
I enjoyed the listeming but still I think one more chapter would have made a big difference. I felt frustrated by the lack of appropriate ending.
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- Jane Burns
- 02-10-19
loved this book ❤️
Geeat listen. Great story.. I'd you love the stories around the Irish culture you will love this!
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- Anonymous User
- 07-06-20
Delightful
I wanted to read this book as I heard Edna on Desert Island Discs, I was taken by how 50 plus years after release she still had a bitter sweet feeling for her successful trilogy, as it caused upset in Ireland.
I like the matter of fact descriptive writing.
I'm cutting this review short as I must read the next one!
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