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320 pages, Paperback
First published February 20, 2020
Monday
4.04 p.m.
Item 12.2 Conversation: Rhetorical questions
Majella? D'ye not have work tae go til this evening? Majella had work to go to, just as she had done every Monday for the past nine years. and Majella knew that her Ma knew that, because her work schedule and weekly Mass were the only routines their lives revolved around.
"I wrote Big Girl Small Town to shine a spotlight on the consequences of the British-Irish border on a family in a deeply divided community over decades of peace and ruthless violence. It tells the story from the dark heart of the community, revealing the human growth and resilience of a proudly ungovernable community on the very edge of Britain."
“I think that while Majella would welcome the social distancing aspect of managing Covid-19, she would – like most people – be intensely worried for the virus's effect on those who are vulnerable: the sick, the infirm and the elderly."
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