IN THE DAYS OF FORD CORTINA – Patricia Walsh

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Ford Cortina, so-called by her father who wished to charm the Ford car factory back to Cork, finds herself in a quandary. Freshly expelled from school, and facing constant surveillance and interrogation from Ms Masterson, the teacher who is also her father’s fiancée, she bolts and runs away to find her fortune elsewhere in the city. In her travels, she encounters a Christian hostel, a large pothole, and a lazy ambulance chaser, before finding love with a lonely transgendered male. But circumstances aren’t finished with her yet…

Patricia Walsh was born in the parish of Mourneabbey, in north Co Cork, and educated at University College Cork, graduating with an MA in Archaeology. She has already published a chapbook, titled Continuity Errors in 2010, and a novel, The Quest for Lost Éire, in 2014. In addition, she has published poetry in Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the US. She lives in Cork city.