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Your Cheatin' Heart

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A Belfast innocent abroad, Maggie Lennon dives into life, lust and 'ludes with a delicious fervour' - Stella Duffy

'Evocative. Moving. Hilarious. A rollercoaster of a read.' Patricia Scanlan

'as evervescent as the best champagne, with intriguingly complex aftertastes' - Nuala O Faolain

' Wildly funny' - Annie Nightingale, BBC Radio 1

'Annie McCartney knows the most important thing for a novelist, how to hook the reader and reel him in' - Glenn Patterson

In her hilarious second novel, Annie McCartney brings to life the characters, colour and sounds of a 1970s hicksville radio station, Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Naive 21 year old Maggie Lennon leaves Northern Ireland to look for summer work in America. Here she meets Sharla, who has a languid southern drawl, a dazzling smile and a waterbed that is unable to withstand her enthusiastic sessions with boyfriend, Buddy. Her appartment is flooded, aggie moves in with Sharla and her life rapidly changes. She secures herself a job as an all-night DJ for Radio WA1A (having convinced her boss she is John Lennon's cousin) and is soon immersed in a world of rock'n'roll.

When the radio station relocates to Tennessee, Magie meeds two men: Nate, the handsome son of a rich Southern family; and Burford, a Country and Western rock star. But as Maggie's professional life takes off and she becomes a player in the music business, so her love life crash lands...

Annie McCartney was a rock'n'roll DJ in America for 5 years. A former actor who has worked onstage, TV and radio, she now lives in Belfast and is a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio Ulster and RTE. Her first novel, Desire Lines, was chosen as Northern Ireland's book for World Book Day 2003. She has written ten plays for BBC Radio 4, including the highly successful Two Doors Down.