描述
The scandalous groundbreaking debut that set the world alight, from the beloved multi award-winning Irish author Edna O'Brien.
'Our oracle.' Patricia Lockwood
'The taboo-breaking, the fabulous prose-there's no one like Edna O'Brien.' Anne Enright
'Surprising and beautiful and courageous . . . A beacon.' Megan Nolan
We want to live. Drink gin. Squeeze into the front of big cars and drive up outside big hotels. We want to go places.
Caithleen is a romantic: she dreams of finding a handsome man who will sweep her away and look after her. Her friend Baba thinks this makes her a right-looking eejit. What she wants is money and glamour. Life. As much of it as she can get.
But neither love nor excitement seem possible in their small village, or their convent school. And when they finally make it to Dublin, they find that home isn't as easy to escape as they thought.