Girls In Their Married Bliss. London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. First Edition. Pp, 190. Blue cloth boards, in pictorial dust jacket designed by David Fawcett. A fine bright copy.

The third and final novel in Edna O’Brien’s ‘The Country Girls’ Trilogy featuring friends Kate Brady and Baba Brennan struggling against the confines of a rural Irish convent school; reveling in the bright lights of Dublin; and weathering the unexpected challenges of married life in London.