Dimensions
128 x 198 x 16mm
'Ger's story is told by her nine-year-old brother, Seany, an endearing and bitingly funny narrator.
There are three idols pinned up on the wall above Ger's spot in the top bunk in their house on a council estate in Ballytownclough, Northern Ireland: there's Jesus, Elvis and Neil Armstrong. When all three fail to answer her prayers to become a boy, Ger takes it upon herself to perform her own mini miracle - with a strategically placed sausage. This is only one of her attempts to change her identity, aided somewhat unwillingly by Seany, there's also the time when they 'kidnap' the altar boy . . .
And even though larger, tougher forces - both in their family and in their country - impinge on Ger and Seany's plots, these bond between these two kids means they never quite lose their engaging sense of humour and grit.
