29/05/2026
📚 GOSHH Book Club📚
The next meeting of the GOSHH Book Club will take place on Wednesday June 24th from 6p.m. to 7p.m. and for June we will be chatting about Breakfast on Pluto by Patrick McCabe.
The GOSHH Book Club meet monthly to chat in an informal setting about books with LGBTI+ characters and/or themes, primarily by LGBTI+ authors. We also provide some copies of the book, which are available to borrow each month free of charge. The GOSHH Book Club is open to any new members Ages 18+.
If you have any interest in joining the GOSHH Book Club, then please email Róisín at [email protected] or call 061 314354.
Book Synopsis:
“From internationally acclaimed author Patrick McCabe, the Booker Prize-nominated novel that tracks the chaotic life of an abandoned orphan who braves the combustible streets of London in the 1970s.
With wonderful delicacy and subtle insight and intimation, McCabe creates Patrick "P***y" Braden, the endearingly hopeful hero(ine) whose gutsy survival and yearning quest for love drive the glimmering, agonizing narrative in which the troubles are a distant and immediate echo and refrain.
Twenty years ago, her ladyship escaped her hometown of Tyreelin, Ireland, fleeing her foster mother Whiskers (prodigious Guinness-guzzler, human chimney) and her mad household, to begin life anew in London. There, in blousy tops and satin miniskirts, she plies her trade, often risking life and limb amongst the flotsam and jetsam that fill the bars of Piccadilly Circus. But suave businessmen and lonely old women are not the only dangers that threaten P***y. It is the 1970's and fear haunts the streets of London and Belfast as the critical mass of history builds up, and P***y is inevitably drawn into a maelstrom of violence and tragedy destined to blow her fragile soul asunder.”
