Telling the Pictures - Hardcover

"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. In her apron and turban-tied headscarf she climbed on the table of the spinning room in Rufus Street, and dramatised, in her own sharp accent, the passions of Hollywood. With her wide eyes and her wit, and her hands weaving gestures like a magician casting spells, she pierced the overcast of their long, dirty workdays."

So both begins and ends Frank Delaney's magnificent 'Telling the Pictures' and in between there is death and drama and humour, all the fabric of life. And, above all, the love story of Belle MacKnight and Gene Comerford, a Protestant girl and a Catholic boy caught amidst the hatred and passion that racks their land.