Country Girl (memoir)

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| author = Edna O'Brien

| pub_date = 2012

| publisher = Faber and Faber

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Country Girl is the memoir of Edna O'Brien. Faber and Faber published it in 2012. The title refers to her debut novel The Country Girls, which was banned, burned and denounced upon publication.

Country Girl{{'}}s cover is a reprint of the photograph used for O'Brien's 1965 novel August Is a Wicked Month.{{cite news|first=Dwight|last=Garner|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/30/books/edna-obriens-memoir-country-girl.html?_r=0|title=Seeking the Ardent Life, Finding It and Sharing It: Edna O'Brien's Memoir, 'Country Girl'|newspaper=The New York Times|date=29 April 2013|accessdate=29 April 2013}}

The Observer said the book "reveal[s] a brave, beautiful and sometimes helpless woman on her journey from repression to creative freedom."{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/sep/30/edna-obrien-country-girl-review|title=Country Girl by Edna O'Brien – review|newspaper=The Observer|date=30 September 2012|accessdate=30 September 2012}}

It won in the Irish Non-Fiction Book category at the 2012 Irish Book Awards.{{cite news|first=Rosita|last=Boland|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/1123/1224327011713.html|title=Banville wins novel of year at awards|newspaper=The Irish Times|date=23 November 2012|accessdate=23 November 2012|archive-date=20 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120152905/http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/1123/1224327011713.html|url-status=dead}}