|
Set in Belfast during the Troubles, this autobiographical first novel by Mary Costello was made into a major film starring Julie Walters and Ciaran Hinds. 1970s Belfast, the city where the Titanic was built, is torn apart by violence. One woman decides to make a stand for peace, while her teenage daughter goes through her first romance. Warm, sharp, humorous and tense, Titanic Town catches a bitter-sweet yet uplifting glimpse of how life goes on even under the harshest conditions. "It is one of the funniest books I've read for a long time - and one of the saddest. Judges and politicians, especially, should buy it" Mail on Sunday "Titanic Town is not only hugely readable, clever and powerful. It is necessary" Literary Review "Beauty and sadness; wit and verve . . . a joy to read" New Statesman
Related titles
About Mary Costello Mary Costello was born in West Belfast in 1955 into a Catholic, working-class family. She grew up in Andersonstown, an IRA stronghold, and experienced at first hand the outbreak of the Troubles. She now lives in Australia. Titanic Town is her first novel.
|
|
