xvii 679 pages. The edges are bumped and the pages lightly tanned, else clean, unmarked and solid. "Edna O'Brien's first three novels: The Country Girls, Girl with Green Eyes and Girls in their Married Bliss. The trilogy follows the lives of Kate Brady and her friend Baba Brennan from the confines of a convent school in the Irish countryside to the bright lights of Dublin, and on to the unexpected challenges of married life in London. These are novels about innocence and youth, love and passion, dreams and reality." (publisher)