Factory Girls
- Author Michelle Gallen
- Narrator Amy Molloy
- Publisher John Murray Press
- Run Time 10 hours and 27 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Modern and contemporary fiction.
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What to expect
The second novel from the Costa Prize shortlisted author of Big Girl, Small Town.
Smart-mouthed and filthy-minded, Maeve Murray has always felt like an outsider in the shitty wee town in Northern Ireland that she calls home. She hopes her exam results will be her ticket to a new life in London; a life where no one knows her business, or cares about her dead sister. But first she's got to survive a tit-for-tat paramilitary campaign as brutal as her relationship with her mam, iron 800 shirts a day to keep her summer job in the local factory, and dodge the attentions of Handy Andy Strawbridge, her dubious English boss.
Maeve and her two best friends try to squeeze in as much fun as possible into their last summer at home. But as marching season raises tensions between the Catholic and Protestant workforce, Maeve realises something is going on behind the scenes at the factory, forcing her to make a choice that will impact her life - and the lives of others - forever.
(P)2022 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
Critics Review
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Highly entertaining . . . crackles with good one-liners . . . yet this earthy comedy also has telling things to say about violence and division
Independent, Books of the Month -
A cracking follow-up – at times savagely funny, but with a loamy undertow of complex feeling . . . Fans of the contemporary Irish authors Lisa McInerney and Louise Kennedy should enjoy it too.
Sunday Times, best popular fiction books of 2022 -
This brash and lively novel is a black comedy of great skill and wit . . . Raucous, in your face, sexually frank and (often hilariously) politically incorrect . . . it’s intoxicating, defiant, bitter laughter in the dark, knowing comedy at its blackest pitch
Irish Examiner -
Full of the stuff that we’re starting to expect of Michelle Gallen; wild, hilariously angry characters, and language that is vital, bang-on, and seriously funny
Roddy Doyle -
A wee novel with an enormous, furious heart . . . Honest, hilarious and such a recognisable portrait of 90s Northern Ireland, Factory Girls is an essential read
Jan Carson -
Majella O’Neill was no flash-in-the-pan – Factory Girls is a powerful second novel. It has all of Gallen’s flair for character, her ear for dialogue and her unparalleled sense of comic timing. And this novel cuts deeper, throbs with pent-up fury, a palpable sense of real and urgent despair. Viciously funny
Lucy Caldwell
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