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Big girl, small town : a novel / Michelle Gallen.
"Majella is happiest out of the spotlight, living a quiet life away from neighbors' stares and the gossips of the small town in Northern Ireland where she grew up during the Troubles. But underneath her seemingly predictable existence, she doesn't know where her father is, and every person in her town has been changed by the lingering divide between Protestants and Catholics. When Majella's grandmother dies, she comes to realize there may be more to life than the gossips of Aghybogey, the pub, and the chip shop. In fact, there just may be a whole big world outside her small town"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781643750897
- ISBN: 1643750895
- Physical Description: 311 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2020.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "First published in Great Britain in 2020 by John Murray (Publishers), a Hachette UK company."--Title page verso. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Grandmothers > Death > Fiction. Single women > Northern Ireland > Fiction. Mothers and daughters > Fiction. Alcoholism > Fiction. Life change events > Fiction. Northern Ireland > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. Domestic fiction. Bildungsromans. Historical fiction. Domestic fiction. Bildungsromans. |
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- 19 of 19 copies available at SPARK Libraries.
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- 1 current hold with 19 total copies.
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| Mason-Dixon Public Library | Adults GAL Fiction (Text) | 34262000838546 | Main Room | Available | - |
| Pottsville Free Public Library | FIC (Text) | 30003009029784 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Reading Public Library RPL - Main | Fiction Gallen (Text) | 33223008660663 | Fiction | Available | - |
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Summary:
"Majella is happiest out of the spotlight, living a quiet life away from neighbors' stares and the gossips of the small town in Northern Ireland where she grew up during the Troubles. But underneath her seemingly predictable existence, she doesn't know where her father is, and every person in her town has been changed by the lingering divide between Protestants and Catholics. When Majella's grandmother dies, she comes to realize there may be more to life than the gossips of Aghybogey, the pub, and the chip shop. In fact, there just may be a whole big world outside her small town"--
