Big girl, small town / Michelle Gallen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gallen, Michelle, 1975- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Single women--Northern Ireland--Fiction.

Single women.

Mothers and daughters--Fiction.

Mothers and daughters.

Alcoholism.

Northern Ireland.

Alcoholism--Fiction.

Grandmother--Death--Fiction.

Grandmother.

Life change events--Fiction.

Life change events.

Northern Ireland--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Bildungsromans.

Physical Description:

311 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : John Murray, 2020.

Summary:

"Other people find Majella odd. She keeps herself to herself, she doesn't like gossip and she isn't interested in knowing her neighbours' business. But suddenly everyone in the small town in Northern Ireland where she grew up wants to know all about hers. Since her da disappeared during the Troubles, she has tried to live a quiet life with her alcoholic mother. She works in the local chip shop (Monday-Saturday, Sundays off), wears the same clothes every day (overalls, too small), has the same dinner each night (fish and chips, nuked in the microwave) and binge watches Dallas (the best show ever aired on TV) from the safety of her single bed. She has no friends and no boyfriend and Majella thinks things are better that way. But Majella's safe and predictable existence is shattered when her grandmother dies and as much as she wants things to go back to normal, Majella comes to realise that maybe there is more to life. And it might just be that from tragedy comes Majella's one chance at escape."--Publisher description.

Notes:

Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction - Finalist, 2023

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1529304202

9781529304206

1529304210

9781529304213

OCLC:

1099829278