History Literature / TheSopranosWarner

* ADateWithRosiePalms: The name of Kylah's band, "Lemonfinger" is an InUniverse reference to the women who work at the local fish plant. They would wash their hands with lemon juice to get rid of the smell, but found that this resulted in a stinging sensation when the they masturbated.
** An issue of ''More'' had an article about masturbation that sparked off a wave of experimentation in the group. Manda tells Orla about specific fantasy she has involving Creator/RobLowe and some face cream.
** Kay tells Fionnula about playing her cello with her legs wrapped around it, claiming that it's like "an arty washing-machine".
** Danny, [[spoiler:according to the note left, steals Kylah, Manda, Orla and Chell's uniforms so he can wank into them later.]]

* SuicideIsShameful: The group don't really buy into the concept of sin as proscribed by the Church, except when it comes to suicide.
** Fionnula’s seventeenth birthday party apparently included a drunken game of Strip [[BoardGames Twister]].

* AcceptableReligiousTargets: When trying to come up with ideas on what to do about their stolen uniforms, Chell jokingly suggest that they rob some robes from a group of Hare Krishnas. Kylah [[DudeNotFunny doesn't appreciate the joke]], but only because she doesn't like Chell trying to make light of how much trouble they'll be in with Sister Condron.

* TwoTeacherSchool: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. Although Sister Condron and Sister Fagan are the only teachers who the girls interact with over the course of the novel, the headmistress, Mother Superior, and others such as The Cyclops and Mr Eldon, are mentioned occasionally.

-->--'''Orla Johnstone'''

-->-- '''Orla Johnstone'''

* DyingTown: The Port does seem to have a few active economic engines mentioned by the characters, such as the ice factory, the fish plant and the Alginate (whose real-life equivalent actually [[https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12684627.alginate-plant-faces-closure/ closed]] a few years prior to the publication of the novel), so it's not a straight-up dead town as such, but on the whole, there aren't many stable, well-paying jobs to be had, with a lot of work being low-paid, seasonal or insecure in other ways.

** The boy Manda had been dancing with at the Mantrap watches a little awkwardly while Manda bats at Kylah's shirt to get some of the dust off her chest.