Book Description
A classic title in Edna O'Brien's Country Girls Trilogy - the third volume.

Synopsis from Amazon
Kate and Baba are in London, playing out the tragicomedy of their married lives to its surprisingly level-headed conclusion. Kate, feeling trapped in her grey stone house with her increasingly cold husband, tearfully looks for her dreams of romance elsewhere. And when Eugene takes terrible, implacable revenge, she naturally turns to her brazen friend Baba for help. But Baba, the bored trophy wife of builder Frank, vulgarly flashing his wealth and ignorance to the world, has her own problems without Kate drooping self-pityingly over her. And both women find unsuspected qualities in themselves as they learn to face reality.

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RELEASE NOTES:

On it's way to Newquay in Cornwall.

Now down in Cornwall getting nearer to Ireland to meet its author :o)
It has manged to find itself a sunny spot in the new kitchen today..

Thanks Jacky

'Kate, discontented, restless and in need of more than her husband Eugene can provide, seeks fulfilment elsewhere. Baba, the accomplice in Kate's indiscretions, drifts into a loveless affair to relieve the frustration of her marriage.
As their hopes turn to disappointments and their expectations to despair, Kate and Baba come to a new understanding of 'married bliss''

This the 3rd in trilogy of Country Girls moves on again in style to that of the 60's ..which sort of works but seems in some ways so very distant from the 1st in the trilogy. The innocence and sparkle has well and truly gone and the style matches the jaded girls? It reminds me of Lynne Reid Banks.

I will keep this in PC for now as I start to read my way through rest of O'Brien's books. I have offered it to others but so far without success.

Lent to member of Newqay Library Friday Monthly Bookgroup. Hope she enjoys it as much as the O'Brien we read as a group.