A POET'S SLANT
Description: Michelle Gallen is an Irish writer and author of Big Girl, Small Town. She was born in Castlederg, Northern Ireland and resides in Dublin.
Factory Girls
Smart-mouthed and filthy-minded, Maeve Murray has always felt like an outsider in the shitty wee town 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.
A POET'S SLANT