Big Girl, Small Town (Paperback)

from jillrhudy

Thanks to Workman publishing for the ARC in exchange for an honest review. Tell Majella O'Neill no tales of wild, romantic Northern Ireland. Her town, Aghybogey, is intolerable, and so are nearly all of the people in it—except, occasionally, her coworker Marty. Majella's a large, grubby, 27-year-...

from quondame

We spend the week following her grandmother's funeral immersed in Majella's narrow and not particularly deep, but very clearly seen world. Hours are spent at the chip shop where she works and each entry is from the catalog of likes and dislikes. Is a patron of the chip shop the brutal murderer of...

from mhartford

Equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking; Majella O'Neill is such a fascinating, complicated, and lovable voice, and she shines a unique light on her small Northern Irish town. I listened to the audiobook narrated by Nicola Coughlan of "Derry Girls," which I highly recommend - she captures the uni...

from mooingzelda

Big Girl, Small Town is a darkly funny novel that serves as a character study of Majella, a woman who lives with her alcoholic mother in the Catholic side of a fictional Northern Irish border town, and works in one of the two local chippies, A Salt and Battered!. The novel is structured around Ma...

from brangwinn

I am including both the audio and the written book in the review, because the audiobook made a real difference in my enjoyment of the story. Majella O'Neill is a young woman who lives in Aghbogy, a fictional town in Northern Ireland. She is autistic which makes living with her alcoholic, slovenly...