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Telling the Pictures

Telling the Pictures

Frank Delaney

Belle, a mill-girl from a poor and religiously oppressive Presbyterian household, has fashioned an escape by discovering the cinema. Through it she tells her workmates the story of each film she sees. It is through this gift that she developes a relationship with Gene, a Catholic.
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‘In Belfast, in 1942, lived Belle, a mill-girl with a gift. Every morning at work, she enthralled people with the story of the film she saw last night.’
And as Belle brings magic to the grim rows of looms, a handsome newcomer watches silently, and Juliet meets her Romeo. For Belle is a Protestant: the stranger, from the south, a Catholic. The Belfast Telegraph, reporting the courtroom sensations, said afterwards, ‘She could tell the pictures better than the silver screen itself – but then along came a man with a silver tongue… ’

Product Description

Title - Telling the Pictures

Edition -

Author - Frank Delaney

ISBN 13 - 9780006479246

Imprint - HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

Publisher - HarperCollins Publishers

Date Published - 08/08/1994

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No. of pages -

Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 111 x 178 x mm

Weight - 278 g

Languages - English