Big Girl, Small Town by Michelle Gallen Read by Nicola Coughlan - Audiobook Ecxcerpt by HachetteAudio published on 2022-06-29T18:04:20Z SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD FINALIST FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARD FOR NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT PRIZE “Darkly hilarious . . . Wildly entertaining.” —The Guardian Meet Majella O’Neill, a heroine like no other, performed by Nicola Coughlan, star of Derry Girls. Majella is happiest out of the spotlight, away from her neighbors’ stares and the gossips of the small town in Northern Ireland where she grew up just after the Troubles. She lives a quiet life caring for her alcoholic mother, working in the local chip shop, watching the regular customers come and go. She wears the same clothes each day (overalls, too small), has the same dinner each night (fish and chips, microwaved at home after her shift ends), and binge-watches old DVDs of the same show (Dallas, best show on TV) from the comfort of her bed. But underneath Majella’s seemingly ordinary life are the facts that she doesn’t know where her father is and that every person in her town has been changed by the lingering divide between Protestants and Catholics. When Majella’s predictable existence is upended by the death of her granny, she comes to realize there may be more to life than the gossips of Aghybogey, the pub, and the chip shop. In fact, there just may be a whole big world outside her small town. Told in a highly original voice, with a captivating heroine readers will love and root for, Big Girl, Small Town will appeal to fans of Sally Rooney, Ottessa Moshfegh, and accessible literary fiction with an edge. Available December 1, 2020 from Hachette Audio as a digital download, and in Print and Ebook from Algonquin Adult. Download: https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/big-girl-small-town/id1632177183 https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781649040282-big-girl-small-town https://www.downpour.com/big-girl-small-town https://www.kobo.com/us/en/audiobook/big-girl-small-town-4 https://audiobookstore.com/audiobooks/big-girl-small-town.aspx https://www.audible.com/pd/Big-Girl-Small-Town-Audiobook/1649040288?qid=1656525682&sr=1-1&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=83218cca-c308-412f-bfcf-90198b687a2f&pf_rd_r=2BJDYHN6282VVZ4XV14W https://play.google.com/store/audiobooks/details/Michelle_Gallen_Big_Girl_Small_Town?id=AQAAAECcQX4B8M https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/big-girl-small-town-michelle-gallen/1135406722?ean=2940175167567 https://www.estories.com/audiobook/383458/Michelle-Gallen/Big-Girl-Small-Town Check out our other great titles and more at: http://www.hachetteaudio.com Follow us at: twitter.com/HachetteAudio www.tumblr.com/blog/hachetteaudio www.facebook.com/HachetteAudio Genre Audiobooks