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There's a rude awakening for Majella today when she gets an phonecall about her granny. But for once, work at the chip shop is a welcome escape from memories of the funeral - especially when Marty comes to the rescue.

Big Girl Small Town is the story of Majella’s week - a week both raucously routine and unexpectedly life-altering. This is an abridgment of Michelle Gallen’s brutally funny, and often brutal, novel about a fictional community near the Northern Irish border a decade after the Good Friday Agreement.

Majella is the opinionated and awkward big girl; Aghybogey is the stiflingly small town. This is where she lives with her alcoholic mother and works in a chip shop frequented by a cornucopia of colourful characters, eccentrics and eejits. She loves Dallas (except for the 1985-86 season), but hates Other People – especially those who gossip about her family, speculate about her father’s disappearance during the Troubles and whisper about who might be behind her granny’s untimely death.

Read by Nicola Coughlan (pictured)
Abridged by Sara Davies
Produced by Ciaran Bermingham