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“We all leave one another. We die, we change–it’s mostly change–we outgrow our best friends, but even if I do leave you, I will have passed on to you something of myself; you will be a different person because of knowing me; it’s inescapable.”
I was struck by the truth of this; the way each person we care for in life leaves their indelible mark on us and influences the way we react to or think of the next person.
This book transported me back to my own twenties and my first real experience with l ...more
I was struck by the truth of this; the way each person we care for in life leaves their indelible mark on us and influences the way we react to or think of the next person.
This book transported me back to my own twenties and my first real experience with l ...more
I made the mistake of reading this one without first reading The Country Girls and do think that I would have enjoyed in more had I read the books in order. The trilogy was banned in Ireland when first published and reading it nearly 60 years later I can understand why. These girls broke the rules of Catholic 1950s Ireland. O'Brien attacks the repressive, and dogmatic Catholic world in which she was raised.
In The Lonely Girl our narrator is Kate who is now a young woman living in Dublin with her ...more
In The Lonely Girl our narrator is Kate who is now a young woman living in Dublin with her ...more
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