{"product_id":"9781529386288-factory-girls","title":"Factory Girls","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA bold snapshot of working young women during the tumultuous Troubles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe second novel from the Costa Prize shortlisted author of \u003ci\u003eBig Girl, Small Town\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFactory Girls \u003c\/i\u003eis 'the perfect pick for those missing their dose of \u003ci\u003eDerry Girls\u003c\/i\u003e' (\u003ci\u003eIrish Examiner\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The perfect pick for those missing their dose of \u003ci\u003eDerry Girls\u003c\/i\u003e' \u003ci\u003eIrish Examiner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Entertaining, touching and savagely funny' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Vital, bang-on, and seriously funny' Roddy Doyle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It's the summer of 1994, and all Maeve Murray wants is some money and good exam results so she can escape her shitty wee town in Northern Ireland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver the holidays, Maeve bags herself a job at the local shirt factory with her best friends Caroline and Aoife. It's set to be the summer of their lives, but first she's got to survive a tit-for-tat paramilitary campaign as brutal as her relationship with her mam, iron 800 shirts a day to keep her job and dodge the attentions of Handy Andy Strawbridge, her slimy English boss. And when she starts to notice things aren't adding up at the factory, it seems like revealing the truth may just be her one-way ticket out of town.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40829328752737,"sku":"9781529386288","price":9.42,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_29769617.jpg?v=1725730883","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781529386288-factory-girls","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}