Lively debut captures teenage kicks during the Troubles
The story is a decent one, bubbling with the aura of authenticity, but the characterisation lets Quigley’s novel down somewhat
Fiction: Music Love Drugs War, By Geraldine Quigley, Fig Tree, €16
The IRA hunger strikes of 1981 form the backdrop to Geraldine Quigley’s debut novel, which follows a group of friends in the early stages of adulthood in Troubles-era Derry. Quigley’s cast of characters have the usual late-teen concerns of falling in love, getting drunk, discovering new music, scoring drugs and avoiding prying parents, but they also have to deal with rioting in ...
