Country Girl

Country Girl is the memoir of Edna O'Brien. Faber and Faber published it in 2012. The title refers to her debut novel The Country Girls, which was banned, burned and denounced upon publication. Country Girl's cover is a reprint of the photograph used for O'Brien's 1965 novel August Is a Wicked Month.

Edna O'Brien, an exceptionally accomplished Irish writer, was in London during the Swinging '60s. She experimented with acid with her psychiatrist, R.D. Laing. Marianne Faithfull, Sean Connery, Princess Margaret, and Jane Fonda were among those who attended her events. Richard Burton and Marlon Brando both attempted to get her into bed. After courting her with this pickup line: "I bet you wish I was Robert Taylor, and I bet you've never tasted white peaches", Robert Mitchum was successful.

O'Brien was born in 1930 in a hamlet in County Clare, Ireland's west. This earthy and vivid book also chronicles her childhood and growth as a writer. Her religious household was tiny. Her father was a farmer who drank and gambled, and her mother had previously worked as a maid. Tuamgraney, her home hamlet, has been described as "tight, fervid, and intolerant." O'Brien did not go to college. She relocated to Dublin, where she worked in a pharmacy during the day and attended the Pharmaceutical College at night.

Detailed information:

Author: Edna O'Brien
Genre: Memoir

Language: English

Link to read: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15790829