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Belfast Girls [Kindle Edition]

Gerry McCullough (Author)
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'Belfast 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 onto 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 ....

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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I came to this book, having heard good things and having already had the pleasure of reading short stories by the same author. I wasn't disappointed.This is a wonderful coming of age story, following the lives of three friends growing up in Belfast. The characters with their individual hopes, fears and ambitions are beautifully portrayed at all ages, along with the respective men in their lives. The Troubles were depicted in varying degrees throughout the story culminating in a shocking finale.
It's easy to get caught up with the girls and the good/bad decisions they make which ultimately affect their lives.

I thoroughly enjoyed this and I'm now looking forward to this author's next book.
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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Like one other recent reviewer, I bought Belfast Girls on the strength of its numerous good reviews - and was sadly disappointed. I'm a Belfast girl myself and love reading books about my home city. But not this one. Its main problem is the hopelessly plodding, pedestrian style. If the author was a fourteen-year-old girl, then well done - otherwise it could use a lot of sympathetic editing. There were a number of jarring minor elements, such as the way none of the characters seemed to have mobile phones in 2007, or the way Sheila's mother chose to write to her daughter from Belfast to Hawaii to communicate some urgent, upsetting news. Maybe she didn't have a landline either. But mostly this book was embarrassingly weak - to the extent that I assume that the complimentary reviews can't be genuine.
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14 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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A modern day Belfast chronicle of three girls growing up in the reality of contemporary Northern Ireland - with visits to Dublin and New York thrown in. You've got almost everything here: love and rejection, friendship and lust, the 'safe' world of fashion and glamour contrasting with the harsh world of crime and danger, fame and disgrace, despair and hope ...

Sheila's life takes off. She's got it all! But her 'ice maiden' success is hollow and empty. On the surface she's living a dream, but she's not enjoying the reality. Phil takes a more obvious route, but things get more and more complicated - leading to disaster. Mary quickly becomes a train wreck - but amazingly she manages to survive and turn her life around.

The men are a contrast, too. Davy is light-hearted and takes what he wants from life, has few scruples and no worries about consequences; while John is serious, ambitious, self-righteous and confused. It's difficult to decide which is worse - the straight forward, self-centred, all-out bad guy, or the well meaning, but moody and tormented, 'good' guy? And the other men in Sheila's life all have their own quirks and agendas.

This novel definitely holds your attention - even on a second reading! It is well written and you want to keep on reading and finding out more about these people. The characters are very real and natural and the story builds steadily towards the final outcome. You've managed to capture something that is believable and authentic.

Well done! Hope it goes from strength to strength!
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Belfast Girls
Good Story quite relevent to the area. Was interesting to read the place names and descriptions around Belfast coming form Northern Ireland myself I could imgine the areas... Read more
Published 3 days ago by Jo
a great read
wasnt sure how much I was going to enjoy this book but thought for 72p it was worth a go. in fact i could not put it down and read it in 2 days. highly recommend
Published 16 days ago by vonvon31
Flat and unlikable characters
I'm not a one to judge writting skills having few myself but I thought this book was poorly written. Read more
Published 23 days ago by Ro
Belfast Girls
Brilliant book about the the lives and experienes of three girls in Belfast. There are elements from many different walks of life and this book is extremely well written.
Published 1 month ago by Eddy Roberts
Great Book
Great book following the loves and lives of three girls from the Irish city of Belfast. Great story line and thoroughly enjoyable.
Published 1 month ago by Christine Moore
A look at modern Ireland through the eyes of three friends
Belfast Girls begins as a coming of age novel, following the lives of three girls as they navigate careers and loves. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mary Vensel White
Belfast Girls
I've never read anything set in Northern Ireland before, well not to my knowledge anyway and I definitely haven't written anything set in this period and I found it really... Read more
Published 3 months ago by bethanchloe
Belfast Girls make good
I really enjoyed this gripping heartfelt tale of friendship against all odds.

It is clear that Ms McCullough cares deeply about her characters which in turn lets the... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Elinor Carlisle
A Gem from Ireland
This book is a true gem among the many books on female friendship. Sheila, Mary, and Phil are soul-mates in a way that only friends from childhood can be. Read more
Published 4 months ago by barbara silkstone
Did I read the same book? !
I am astonished this book has so many good reviews and no poor ones at all. I bought this on the strength of the reviews and I was very disappointed. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Miss R. Rhodes
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