A natural storyteller with a Sedarislike eye for black humour. There are sharp splinters of comic relief compelling and nuanced. Edel Coffey, Irish Times Quickwitted, charismatic and generous angry, vicious and hurt in pubs all over Cork City, Noelle McCarthys mother Carol rages against her life and everything she has lost. Soon after leaving college, in the early years of the millennium, Noelle flees. Even on the other side of the world, with fame and success within her grasp, Noelle cannot escape an appetite for selfdestruction. Life spirals out of control until she too is in danger of losing everything. At thirty, she pulls back from the brink.Over a decade later, Carol is dying. Finally, it seems, mother and daughter will make peace. Except Carol has no interest in admitting her own mortality she will die as she lived, entirely on her own terms. If there is any reckoning to be done between past and present, Noelle will be doing it on her own.Grand is the deeply moving and surprisingly funny outcome of Noelles yearning to understand her mother, and to make sense of their lives, together and apart. Most of all, it is a dazzlingly honest memoir about becoming a modern woman.2023 NonFiction Winner at the Ockham New Zealand Book AwardsExquisitely written profoundly moving. And like all great memoirs it is hilarious in parts. If, like, me, you love the personal essays of Sinad Gleeson and Emilie Pine, youll adore this Sunday IndependentDesperately funny, hysterically sad,...

Binding: Paperback;272 pages; Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; Classification: BM; Weight: 398 g; Dimensions: 134 x 216 x 22

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