Factory Girls by Michelle Gallen is the latest book up for discussion on The Women’s Podcast book club.
Set in the summer of 1994, the story follows the lives of Maeve and her two friends, who begin working in the local shirt factory in a small border town in Northern Ireland, while awaiting their A-Level results.
As the summer unfolds, tensions rise in the factory between the Catholic and Protestant workers and the young women dream of lives elsewhere.
“It’s a great laugh from start to finish,” Ann Ingle tells fellow book clubbers Bernice Harrison and Róisín Ingle.
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