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Edna O'Brien's family motivated her to attend pharmacy institution but she kept before finishing, to marry an older writer, give birth to two sons, and publish, in 1960, her first book. The Country Ladies so scandalized the O'Briens' local parish that the booklet was burned up by the priest, her family disgraced. Country Gal comes 21 books later, a rich and heady accounting of the occurrences, people, thoughts, and surroundings that imprint after and enliven one life-time. Starting with O'Brien's birth in a grand but deteriorating family house in Ireland and the physicality of family life in the country, her story progresses to the crushes and problems of convent institution; elopement, divorce, single-motherhood, and the crazy celebrations of the '60s in London that included people from all walks of life, including such actors as Marlon Brando, Richard Burton, and Paul McCartney. There may be love and unrequited love, and the glamour of outings to America as an acclaimed writer who was desired and managed by Jackie Onassis and invited to the White House by Hillary Clinton. The "broken piano" express of old age is heightened by the level of reading, and the drive to create. Excellent and sensuous, Country Gal is a booklet that Edna O'Brien was always meant to write.
