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Kitten Heels
Maureen Cullen
Kathleen Haggerty is resourceful, brave and tireless – but fated to work in the bra factory like her mother. It’s 1962, and Kathleen resents her situation. She has to look after her three younger siblings whilst her mother works part-time, collect the wages from her absentee father, and sacrifice her social life for responsibilities she never asked for. When Kathleen’s grandmother dies, the entire family dynamic changes – leaving the relationship with her mother to suffer.
Kitten Heels is a moving coming-of-age story, set in 1960’s workingclass Clydeside and told from thirteen-year-old Kathleen’s perspective.
It is a humorous, character filled story, dealing with issues of poverty, mental health, the role of women. Kathleen finds comfort and support in the community of women around her – learning from the way in which these women find ways to grow, nourish and heal each other, despite hardships and institutional obstacles set in their way.
Maureen Cullen
Maureen is a retired social worker living in Argyll & Bute. After thirty years’ commitment to social work, she turned to writing poetry and short fiction, completing a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from Lancaster University in 2015 and achieving a distinction. Maureen has had poetry published in multiple magazines and online webzines, and had a poetry conversation written with Patricia M Osborne, Sherry and Sparkly, published by the Hedgehog Press in 2021. She has been shortlisted in numerous short story competitions, including the V.S. Pritchett Prize, the Fish Prize, and the Bristol Prize. She also won the Labello Prize for short fiction in 2014, and the Ringwood Short Story competition in 2022.