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Factory Girls by Michelle Gallen

Michelle Gallen’s uproarious, raw story of teenager Maeve Murray, who finds an eye-opening summer job and dreams of escaping a divided Northern Irish town in the 1990s.

Michelle Gallen’s uproarious and poignant new novel set in 1990’s Northern Ireland, abridged for ±«Óãtv Sounds.

Maeve Murray is an outspoken teenager who begins a fateful summer job with her friends, undaunted by her pervy boss and thundering co-workers. But with its divided community and raw recent history, she has big aspirations to escape the wee border town she has called home for 18 years.

Read by Niamh McEnhill
Abridged by Katrin Williams
Producer: Ciaran Bermingham