Factory girls
(2022)

Fiction

Book

Call Numbers:
FICTION/GALLEN,M

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Fiction FICTION/GALLEN,M Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2022
EDITION
First Edition
DESCRIPTION

294 pages ; 21 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781643752457, 1643752456 :, 1643752456, 9781643752457
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"First published in Great Britain in 2022 by John Murray (Publishers), A Hachette UK company."--Title page verso

"A darkly comic novel about three friends working in a shirt factory in Northern Ireland while they plot their escape from their provincial families and the simmering violence of the Troubles"--

Summer, 1994. Maeve Murray wants a good final exam result so she can earn her ticket out of the wee Northern Irish town she has grown up in during the Troubles. As a first step to afford studying journalism in London, Maeve takes a job in a shirt factory. As the British loyalist marching season raises tensions among the Catholic and Protestant workforce, Maeve realizes something is going on behind the scenes at the factory. And seeking justice for herself and her fellow workers may just be Maeve's one-way ticket out of town. -- adapted from jacket