The Lonely Girl. New York: Random House,1962. First American Edition. Quarter cloth over paper boards, in publisher’s pictorial dust jacket. A nice bright copy.

Bookplate Signed by the Author pasted to half-title.

The author’s second book in ‘The Country Girls’ Trilogy comprising The Country Girls (1960), The Lonely Girl (1962), and Girls in Their Married Bliss (1964).

The trilogy follows the fortunes of friends Kate Brady and Baba Brennan struggling against the confines of a rural Irish convent school; revelling in the bright lights of Dublin; and weathering the unexpected challenges of married life in London.