Music Love Drugs War
  • Published: 3 January 2019
  • ISBN: 9780241354148
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288
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Music Love Drugs War

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3 Mar 2020
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A poignant coming-of-age story about the lives of a group of teenagers in 1980s Derry

The end of the school year is approaching, and siblings Paddy and Liz McLaughlin, Christy Meehan, Kevin Thompson and their friends will soon have to decide what they're going to do with the rest of their lives. But it's hard to focus on when there's the allure of their favourite hangout place, the dingy 'Cave', where they go to drink, flirt and listen to Dexys and Joy Division. Through a fog of marijuana, beer and budding romance, the future is distant and unreal. But this is Derry in 1981, and they can't ignore the turmoil of the outside world. When a friend is killed, Christy and Paddy, stunned out of their stupor, take matters into their own hands. Some choices are irreversible, and choosing to fight will take hold of their lives in ways they never imagined.
  • Published: 3 January 2019
  • ISBN: 9780241354148
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288
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Praise for Music Love Drugs War

Warm but also unsettling and exhilarating. That's some feat, but Geraldine Quigley has managed to make it seem easy

Roddy Doyle

A poignant and powerful coming-of-age story

Sunday Mirror

A sensitive and powerful coming-of-age novel

Observer

A clever, compassionate and humorous look at teenage kicks and sectarian strife in early 80s Northern Ireland

Guardian

A classic coming of age tale . . . pitch perfect

Daily Telegraph

Worth checking out for its loving attention to how it feels to be young and in love in a time of turmoil

i newspaper's Best New Books for 2019

A beguiling, confident debut

Irish Independent

Both funny and moving, Music Love Drugs War is a poignant coming-of-age novel ... pitches tender depictions of friendship and love against the stark backdrop of war, hunger strikes, rioting and plastic bullets

Belfast Telegraph

If you happened to like Derry Girls, you're in for a treat with Music Love Drugs War

Sunday Business Post magazine

A vivid debut. Geraldine's depiction of what could draw ordinary kids into a paramilitary organisation feels utterly convincing . . . her dialogue feels sparky and alive

Sunday Times