A treasure of world literature back in print, featuring a new introduction by
Eimear McBride
The country girls are Caithleen "Kate" Brady and Bridget "Baba" Brennan, and
their story begins in the repressive atmosphere of a small village in the west
of Ireland in the years following World War II. Kate is a romantic, looking for
love; Baba is a survivor. Setting out to conquer the bright lights of Dublin,
they are rewarded with comical miscommunications, furtive liaisons, bad faith,
bad luck, bad sex, and compromise; marrying for the wrong reasons, betraying for
the wrong reasons, fighting in their separate ways against the overwhelming wave
of expectations forced