Ghost Factory

Jenny McCartney

earliest edition we have, 2019 Fourth Estate, 2020 hardcover 272 pages

A powerful debut set in Belfast and London in the latter years of the twentieth century. The Troubles turned Northern Ireland into a ghost factory: as the manufacturing industry withered, the death business boomed. In trying to come to terms with his father's sudden death, and the attack on his harmless best friend Titch, Jacky is forced to face the bullies who still menace a city scarred by conflict. After he himsel...

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The Ghost Factory hardcover · 2020 · Fourth Estate · 272 pages · 9780008295493
Ghost Factory edition · 2020 · HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 272 pages · 9780008295516
Ghost Factory edition · 2019 · HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 9780008295523
Ghost Factory edition · 2019 · HarperCollins Publishers Australia · 272 pages · 9780008295509

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