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Also by Edna O'Brien:

The Love Object, May 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
Country Girl, May 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
Saints And Sinners, May 2011
Paperback
Byron in Love, June 2010
Paperback
The Lonely Girl, December 2002
Paperback (reprint)
The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue, May 1987
Paperback

THE LONELY GIRL
By: Edna O'Brien

Plume
December 2002
On Sale: November 26, 2002
208 pages
ISBN: 0452283752
EAN: 9780452283756
Paperback (reprint)
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Fiction Family Life

The New York Times Book Review hailed The Country Girls, the first book in Edna O'Brien's critically acclaimed trilogy, as "Powerful. Intelligent. Ironic. A treasure."

The Lonely Girl continues the story of childhood friends Kate and Baba, now both twenty-one, as they navigate the rocky, sometimes treacherous pathways of urban life. With hearts as big as Dublin, and hopes as bright as new pennies, they move bravely and eagerly toward the future. Yet the two couldn't be more different. Kate toils in a grocery shop and lives out her romantic fantasies in books. Baba entertains more earthbound dreams. Their principles—and friendship—are tested when Kate meets a dashing married man, and discovers the exhilaration of passion...and the consequences of falling in love.

A novel that combines the teeming ethos of big-city life with the ambitions and yearnings of two emerging young women, The Lonely Girl is a stellar achievement from one of Ireland's finest storytellers.

Media Buzz

Diane Rehm Show - NPR - March 27, 2013