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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 Fiction Genre Fiction Heartfelt
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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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This was sheer joy for me, transportation to a different world. The author's voice and intonation was heaven and her prose exquisite.

One of the loveliest books I've ever read

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Thoroughly enjoyable listen, recommend listening to Edna’s own recording. I couldn’t put it down, all the ranges of emotions within 20 chapters!

Captivating

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Geeat listen. Great story.. I'd you love the stories around the Irish culture you will love this!

loved this book ❤️

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