
Factory Girls
THE CASTLEDERG author’s debut novel Big Girl, Small Town (2020) features a 27-year-old chip-shop worker trapped in a Co Tyrone backwater during the 1970s. It offers an ominously comic perspective on a life overshadowed by sectarian conflict. Michelle Gallen’s second book, Factory Girls, also explores the legacy of the Troubles but is rather less sure-footed.... Read more »