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Penguin Books Ltd Grand : Becoming My Mother’s Daughter

‘A natural storyteller with a Sedaris-like eye for black humour.There are sharp splinters of comic relief … compelling and nuanced.” Edel Coffey, Irish Times Quick-witted, charismatic and generous; angry, vicious and hurt; in pubs all over Cork City, Noelle McCarthy's 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 self-destruction.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 Noelle's 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 Non-Fiction Winner at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards‘Exquisitely written … profoundly moving. And like all great memoirs it is hilarious in parts.If, like, me, you love the personal essays of Sinéad Gleeson and Emilie Pine, you’ll adore this’ Sunday Independent'Desperately funny, hysterically sad, so beautiful and so humane.All of life is in it' Meg Mason'Hooked me like a fish' New York Times‘A really vivacious account of frayed family relationships across the decades and around the world’ Financial Times Podcast

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