Big girl, small town /
Gallen, Michelle, 1975-
Big girl, small town / Michelle Gallen. - 311 pages ; 22 cm
"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.
9781529304213
be2020007452
Grandmothers--Death--Fiction.
Single women--Northern Ireland--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
Alcoholism--Fiction.
Life change events--Fiction.
Northern Ireland--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Bildungsromans.
823.92
Big girl, small town / Michelle Gallen. - 311 pages ; 22 cm
"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.
9781529304213
be2020007452
Grandmothers--Death--Fiction.
Single women--Northern Ireland--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
Alcoholism--Fiction.
Life change events--Fiction.
Northern Ireland--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Bildungsromans.
823.92