On October 18-19, 2025 we'll gather on Zoom (in multiple discussion sessions) to discuss Irish author Edna O'Brien's celebrated trilogy, The Country Girls. The books, originally published in 1960-1964 and then republished in revised form in 1986, have often been credited with breaking silence on sexual matters and social issues. After being banned initially by the Irish censorship board, the trilogy went on to gain acclaim as a highly influential work, inspiring a new generation of Irish writers.

 

More details will be posted here, with a link to this event's registration page, as soon as its registration opens.

 

​​Long Novel Weekends in the recent past have featured discussions of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Wuthering Heights, A Tale of Two Cities, The Master and Margarita, and Midnight's Children.

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Questions? Please send email to greatbooks.longnovel@gmail.com.

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