Minerva, ChichesterNearly 60 years after Edna O'Brien's novel outraged the establishment, the gallivanting girls are as vital as ever in this skilled stage versionWhen Edna O'Brien published The Country Girls in 1960 she was denounced as having "wrought a smear on Irish womanhood"; the novel was banned in Ireland, and burned in her local church. Nearly 60 years on, the book looks like a beacon. It told the truth abou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AM on June 18, 2017