The Country Girls Trilogy by Edna O'Brien

The Country Girls Trilogy by Edna O'BrienONE OF THE BBC'S '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD' Edna O'Brien's iconic trilogy of novels The Country Girls, The Lonely Girl and Girls in their Married Bliss depicts the lives and loves of two girls in rural 1950s Ireland. Edna O'Brien's debut novels revolutionised Irish literature in the 1960s. Banned by the authorities as 'indecent and obscene' and burned by the clergy, they were instantly notorious for their frank portrayal of sexual desire: but

and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light

You don't have to imagine that world

and Other Stories is a gathering of deliciously chilling entertainments - stories to be read as the evenings draw in and the days are haunted by all the ghastly schlock

With his world thrown radically off-balance he can only hurtle towards tragedy

An intimate associate or friend

The Meditations of the great Roman philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius are simple yet profound works of stoic philosophy that continue to offer guidance and consolation to many with their eloquence

shocking stories from the master of the unpredictable

so if his cousin Freddie occasionally drops off the odd ring or necklace at the furniture store

it is the Watership Down of the fox world

memory and the power of imagination from Julia Donaldson

loss and exile

What would happen then