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'Belfast Girls' is the story of three girls - Sheila, Phil and Mary - growing up into the new emerging post-conflict Belfast of money, drugs, high fashion and crime; and of their lives and loves.
Sheila, a supermodel, is kidnapped. Phil is sent to prison. Mary, surviving a drug overdose, has a spiritual awakening.
It is also the story of the men who matter to them -
John Branagh, former candidate for the priesthood, a modern Darcy, someone to love or hate. Will he and Sheila ever get together? Davy Hagan, drug dealer, 'mad, bad and dangerous to know'. Is Phil also mad to have anything to do with him?
Although from different religious backgrounds, starting off as childhood friends, the girls manage to hold onto that friendship in spite of everything. A book about contemporary Ireland and modern life.
A book which both men and women can enjoy - thriller, romance, comedy, drama - and much more ....
Sheila, a supermodel, is kidnapped. Phil is sent to prison. Mary, surviving a drug overdose, has a spiritual awakening.
It is also the story of the men who matter to them -
John Branagh, former candidate for the priesthood, a modern Darcy, someone to love or hate. Will he and Sheila ever get together? Davy Hagan, drug dealer, 'mad, bad and dangerous to know'. Is Phil also mad to have anything to do with him?
Although from different religious backgrounds, starting off as childhood friends, the girls manage to hold onto that friendship in spite of everything. A book about contemporary Ireland and modern life.
A book which both men and women can enjoy - thriller, romance, comedy, drama - and much more ....
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From the Author:
Take the plotting agility of Desperate Housewives, mix in the romance of Sex in the City, add the humour and warmth of Friends, give it the depth of Andre Malroux's The Human Condition, set it in Ireland and you've got Belfast Girls.
About the Author:
Gerry McCullough is an award-winning short story writer, born and brought up in north Belfast. She is married to media producer, Raymond McCullough, has four children and lives in Co. Down, Northern Ireland. Belfast Girls is her first full-length novel. Her 2nd thriller-romance novel, Danger, Danger, was published in October 2011; followed by a collection of humorous Irish short stories, The Seanachie: Tales of Old Seamus, in Jasnuary 2012; and Angel in Flight: an Angel Murphy thriller, in June 2012.
Gerry has had around 60 short stories published and, in 2005 won the Cuírt International Award for New Writing, from Galway Arts Centre, Ireland. In 2008, she was shortlisted for the Brian Moore Award, Belfast; in 2009, commended in the Sean O'Faolain Short Story Competition, Cork; and again shortlisted for the Cuírt Award, Galway, in 2010.
Her young adult novel, Lady Molly and The Snapper, was successful in the first round of the 2010 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Competition, and will appear later in 2012. Gerry also has an adult comic fantasy novel and several collections of Irish short stories in the pipeline. Belfast Girls was voted Book of the Year, 2010 on Night Publishing and has sold more than 15,000 copies. Gerry now writes and blogs full-time.
Gerry has had around 60 short stories published and, in 2005 won the Cuírt International Award for New Writing, from Galway Arts Centre, Ireland. In 2008, she was shortlisted for the Brian Moore Award, Belfast; in 2009, commended in the Sean O'Faolain Short Story Competition, Cork; and again shortlisted for the Cuírt Award, Galway, in 2010.
Her young adult novel, Lady Molly and The Snapper, was successful in the first round of the 2010 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Competition, and will appear later in 2012. Gerry also has an adult comic fantasy novel and several collections of Irish short stories in the pipeline. Belfast Girls was voted Book of the Year, 2010 on Night Publishing and has sold more than 15,000 copies. Gerry now writes and blogs full-time.
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- PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1456387103
- ISBN 13 9781456387105
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages314
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