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Belfast Girls - a novel by Gerry McCullough Irish podcastThriller/romance set in modern Belfast, where the world of high fashion meets drugs & crime! |
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Chapter 2
February 23, 2011 12:40 PM PST
The story now travels back in time to Sheila's childhood, where she first meets Phil and they soon become close friends.
January 26, 2011 06:37 PM PST
Gerry McCullough reads the first chapter of her recently published novel Belfast Girls :
Sheila Doherty - the Belfast girl grown up to be a supermodel - prepares for a fashion show at the Magnifico Hotel, in the newly regenerated city centre. Unknown to Sheila her ex-boyfriend, John Branagh, is at that moment driving towards the hotel to interview a politician. But the fashion show is about to have a far more dramatic interruption ....
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Podcast SummaryBelfast 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 on to 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 .... Podcast produced by Raymond McCullough,
About Gerry McCulloughGerry McCullough has been writing poems and stories since childhood. Brought up in north Belfast, she graduated in English and Philosophy from Queen's University, Belfast, then went on to gain an MA in English. She lives just outside Belfast, in Northern Ireland, has four grown up children and is married to singer/songwriter and Media Producer, Raymond McCullough, with whom she co-edited the Irish magazine, ‘Bread’, (published by Kingdom Come Trust), from 1990-96. In 1995 they also published a non-fiction book called, ‘Ireland - now the good news!’ Over the past few years Gerry has had over forty short stories published in UK, Irish and American magazines, anthologies & annuals - as well as broadcast on BBC Radio Ulster - plus poems and articles published in several Northern Ireland & UK magazines. Her previous success in winning the Cuírt International Literary Award for 2005 (Galway); being shortlisted for the 2008 Brian Moore Award (Belfast); commended in the 2009 Seán O’Faolain Short Story Competition, (Cork); and her recent success on HarperCollins’ Authonomy.com site; have opened the opportunity for publication of her full-length Irish novel, ‘Belfast Girls’ - released on Amazon.com November, 2010 and now on Barnes & Noble, Kindle and Nook, also. The prizewinning story, 'Primroses', is one of a series of twelve Irish short stories written by Gerry, also currently under consideration for publication in book form - while in the pipeline are a children’s book set in Dublin; and a humorous, futuristic, fantasy novel, (see gerrymccullough.com for more info.).
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