Girls in Their Married Bliss

First edition (publ. Jonathan Cape)

Girls in Their Married Bliss is the third and final novel in Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls Trilogy following The Country Girls and The Lonely Girl.[1] The novel was first published in Britain in 1964.[1] The novel was less well received, because of its darker themes and writing, and was not published in the United States until 1967.[2]

  1. ^ a b Bell, Millicent (18 February 1968). "Baba and Kate". New York Times Review of Books.
  2. ^ Kathryn Laing; Sinéad Mooney; Maureen O'Connor (2006). Edna O'Brien: New Critical Perspectives. Peter Lang. pp. 19–22. ISBN 978-1-904505-20-4.