The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1986. First Edition. Pp 531. Quarter blue cloth over paper boards, in publisher’s pictorial dust jacket. Jacket lightly toned, otherwise a nice bright copy.

Signed by the Author on the title page.

The Country Girls (1960), is often credited with breaking silence on sexual matters and social issues during a repressive period in Ireland following the Second World War. It was followed by two sequels The Lonely Girl (1962), and Girls in Their Married Bliss (1964). All three novels were banned by the Irish censorship board and faced significant public disdain in Ireland. O’Brien won the Kingsley Amis Award in 1962 for The Country Girls.

The trilogy was re-released in 1986 in a single volume with a revised ending to Girls in Their Married Bliss and addition of an epilogue.