"I was going to ask about the books that you write and if I could read one?"
Irish farm girl Kate Brady (Rita Tushingham), lives in Dublin with with her gregarious friend Baba Brennan (Lynn Redgrave). She's after a more exciting life and finds it with older and more worldly wise writer Eugene Gaillard (Peter Finch). Though initially reluctant he eventually is worn down by her persistence. But then her strict Catholic family learn of the relationship. Can it survive when all are against it?
A quiet unassuming film based on Edna O'Brien's novella "The Lonely Girl", held together by the central performance of Rita Tushingham, who you believe is a waif blowing in the wind, but with a determined streak.
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