Your Cheatin' Heart

by Annie McCartney

In 1977, nave, twenty-one-year-old Maggie Lennon leaves Northern Ireland to look for a summer job in America. What she finds is a job as an all-night DJ for Radio WA1A radio, a boss called Zollie D Follie and a best friend, Sharla Emma-Lea Ayn, who introduces her to dope, shaved legs and sex with blonde-haired surfers. And there's no going back from that.When the radio station relocates to Tennessee, Maggie's life is turned upside down by two Nate, the handsome son of a rich Southern family; and Buford, 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. Who knows how it happens, Maggie must be crazy, but pretty soon she's standing with a gun in her hand, Buford's girlfriend, Sue Lynne, is lying on the floor and the police are on their way...

288 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2005

Reviews

[Bobby Poe · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent insider's view of the U.S. music business that keeps your interest throughout. Annie's loosely autobiographical story of an Irish young woman working at U.S. radio stations will have you laughing out loud.

[Fil · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this book - great craic ( that means fun !!) - the conflict between puritanical tortured Belfast of the 70s and the mad life of a rock’n’roll radio DJ in America.

[Louise · Rating 1 out of 5]

Boring and confusing. A waste of paper in my opinion.