The Country Girls

When Irish eyes are smiling, here’s what’s hidden behind them – a fresh, gay, shrewd assessment of a world where the wolves still roam.

The story of Cait and Baba and their escape from countryside and convent to the alluring crowds and lights and noise of Dublin.

‘Excellent and highly unusual blend of bawdiness and innocence’ – Evening Standard

‘The Country Girls with its unphoney charm and unlaborious originality, wins my personal first-novel prize of the year’ – Kingsley Amis in the Observer

You’ll find the same girls and the same blend of knowledgeable purity, wide-eyed devilment, and unadulterated joie de vivre in Girl with Green Eyes and Girls in their Married Bliss, both in Penguins.