‘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… ’
- ISBN10 0006479243
- ISBN13 9780006479246
- Publish Date 8 August 1994 (first published 18 November 1993)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 October 2004
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 496
- Language English
- URL http://harpercollins.co.uk