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I'll be re-reading Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls.
This was the first part of a trilogy of novels (later collected as The Country Girls Trilogy) which also included The Lonely Girl (1962) and Girls in Their Married Bliss (1964). Shortly after their publication, these books were banned in Ireland due to their frank portrayals of the sex lives of their characters.
I loved these when I came across them first while living in Ireland.
Ánd they were not only banned because of the above mentioned, but also because of their criticism of the Catholic Church.
Well worth a read
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