Edna O'Brien 3 Books Collection Set - Fiction - Paperback

Titles in this set:

1. The Country Girls
2. August is a Wicked Month
3. The Little Red Chairs

Description

The Country Girls
Caithleen 'Kate' Brady and Bridget 'Baba' Brennan are growing up in a repressive Irish village after World War II. Kate is a romantic, looking for love; Baba is a reckless survivor. After being expelled from convent school, they dream of the bright lights of Dublin - and are rewarded with bad luck and bad sex; marry for the wrong reasons; but continue to fight the expectations forced upon 'girls' of every era to become brave new women.

August is a Wicked Month
Separated from her husband and young son, Ellen leaves behind the loneliness of London for a new life of excitement and sexual freedom: a 'jaunt into iniquity' on the gorgeous French Riviera. However, she soon discovers that independence blurs into loneliness, especially when she receives some heart-breaking news ...

The Little Red Chairs
When a man who calls himself a faith healer arrives in a small, west-coast Irish village, the community is soon under the spell of this charismatic stranger from the Balkans. One woman in particular, Fidelma McBride, becomes enthralled in a fatal attraction that leads to unimaginable consequences.