$28.85
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
29 March 2022
Summary
“I’ll be grand, girl, I’ve great faith.” – Mammy, just before she died
Funny, charismatic and generous; angry, vicious and hurt; in pub lounges all over Cork City, Noelle McCarthy’s mother Carol rages against her life and everything she’s lost.
As soon as she can, Noelle runs away. All the way to New Zealand, to make a new, different kind of life. But then Mammy gets sick, and it’s time to face everything that’s waiting back home.
From Catholic Ireland in the ’70s, ’80…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143776109 |
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| ISBN-10: | 014377610X |
| Author: | Noelle McCarthy |
| Publisher: | Penguin NZ |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 29 March 2022 |
| Weight: | 270g |
| Dimensions: | 1mm x 1mm x 1mm |
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About The Author
Noelle McCarthy
Noelle McCarthy is an award-winning writer and broadcaster.
“Buck Rabbit”, her first foray into non-fiction, won the Short Memoir section of the Fish Publishing International Writing competition in 2020.
Since 2017, she and her husband John Daniell have been making critically acclaimed podcasts as Bird of Paradise Productions.
She has written columns, reviews, first-person essays and features for a wide range of media in New Zealand including Metro, The NZ Herald and Newsroom. In Ireland, she’s provided commentary for radio and written for The Irish Times, The Independent and The Irish Examiner.
With nearly twenty years’ experience in radio, she is a go-to host at writer’s festivals and has interviewed some of the world’s most famous and well-respected storytellers, from Eleanor Catton to Marlon James, Margaret Atwood and James Cameron.
She lives in the New Zealand countryside with her husband and their daughter, and she misses Irish chocolate.
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