Just A Woman

I really liked this book, though I'd read a previous book by Chris Barry, a a novel based on the horrors of Ireland's Industrial School system so I reckoned this one would be equally absorbing. Chris is a therapist, and this comes through in her writing and her fascinating insigts into the intricacies of human behaviour. In Just a Woman she explores the dark underbelly of Irish society...drugs, forbidden lesbian love, organised crime Irish style...it's all there, a side of the "Emerald Isle you won't read about in tourist brochures. The story is compelling...a lesbian Irish journalist tries to "get the goods" on some pretty nasty crime bosses who specialise in sexual exploitation of women, in the process flouting the rules of her profession by taking the law into her own hands and trying out a little vigilantism...with devastating and unexpected consequences!