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OverviewAn astonishing memoir about mothers and daughters, addiction and recovery, birth and loss, running away and coming home 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Noelle McCarthyPublisher: Penguin Books Ltd Imprint: Sandycove Dimensions: Width: 13.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.270kg ISBN: 9781844886500ISBN 10: 1844886506 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 15 June 2023 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsA really vivacious account of frayed family relationships across decades and around the world * Financial Times Podcast * Desperately funny, hysterically sad, so beautiful and so humane. All of life is in it. I utterly adored it -- Meg Mason Desperately funny, hysterically sad, so beautiful and so humane. All of life is in it. I utterly adored it -- Meg Mason A really vivacious account of frayed family relationships across decades and around the world * Financial Times Podcast * Grand hooked me like a fish. It is a tale of recovery and growth [and] deep, deep love * New York Times * I loved it! The writing is stunning. Noelle McCarthy has an incredible knack for sharing the darkest of memories with a lightness of touch. You won't want to put this book down, but once you do, every gorgeous word will haunt you. Beautiful and compelling -- Tara Flynn A fierce and sometimes hilarious reflection on the maddening endurance of love between mother and daughter. McCarthy's prose sparkles in the darkness of addiction, shame, and inherited trauma. I devoured this book -- Aingeala Flannery Grand is a love story and occasionally a hate story too. A vital, unexpected love letter to family, flaws, and the fact that none of us is perfect. McCarthy writes to remind us that sometimes you have to pull at the threads, perhaps unravel completely, to find your way back to a life a little less undone -- Cristín Leach An eloquent exploration of generational trauma told with immense wit and candour. Compellingly readable -- Hilary Fannin A rich, unsettling read - a bit like jumping on a moving train as it speeds through shifting landscapes. Enthralling, unnerving and above all, honest -- Lia Mills I really loved this book . . . beautifully endearing and candid -- June Caldwell Humane and wryly funny . . . so readable, relatable and ultimately uplifting -- Elizabeth Boyle A searingly honest memoir, as close to the bone as it is to the heart -- Maia Dunphy In this compelling an nuanced memoir, McCarthy has given her mother's extraordinary life story the attention and historical context it deserves. -- Edel Coffey * Irish Times * This remarkably funny, honest and often sad story of the relationship between the author and her mother shows us that what elevates a memoir out of the ordinary is the ability of the storyteller to captivate and to evoke a sense of time, place and culture so strong the reader is living and breathing along with the writer every word of the way. * Sunday Independent * Noelle McCarthy yearns to understand her mother and to make sense of their lives, in this deeply moving and surprisingly funny memoir. * Irish Examiner * 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 * Desperately funny, hysterically sad, so beautiful and so humane. All of life is in it. I utterly adored it -- Meg Mason Grand hooked me like a fish . . . a tale of recovery and growth [and] deep, deep love * New York Times * 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 * A really vivacious account of frayed family relationships across decades and around the world * Financial Times * Remarkably funny, honest and often sad . . . there's a whole pile of un-maudlin heart and a whole lot of love here * Sunday Independent * A searingly honest memoir, as close to the bone as it is to the heart -- Maia Dunphy Deeply moving and surprisingly funny * Irish Examiner * I loved it! The writing is stunning. Noelle McCarthy has an incredible knack for sharing the darkest of memories with a lightness of touch. You won't want to put this book down, but once you do, every gorgeous word will haunt you. Beautiful and compelling -- Tara Flynn Savagely brilliant * Business Post * A fierce and sometimes hilarious reflection on the maddening endurance of love between mother and daughter. McCarthy's prose sparkles in the darkness of addiction, shame, and inherited trauma. I devoured this book -- Aingeala Flannery Grand is a love story and occasionally a hate story too. A vital, unexpected love letter to family, flaws, and the fact that none of us is perfect. McCarthy writes to remind us that sometimes you have to pull at the threads, perhaps unravel completely, to find your way back to a life a little less undone -- Cristín Leach An eloquent exploration of generational trauma told with immense wit and candour. Compellingly readable -- Hilary Fannin A rich, unsettling read - a bit like jumping on a moving train as it speeds through shifting landscapes. Enthralling, unnerving and above all, honest -- Lia Mills I really loved this book . . . beautifully endearing and candid -- June Caldwell Humane and wryly funny . . . so readable, relatable and ultimately uplifting -- Elizabeth Boyle Already acclaimed in New Zealand, it doesn't hold back any punches in describing a difficult relationship with her alcoholic mother (and is insightful about the restraints imposed on an intelligent woman of her mother's generation living in conservative, Catholic Ireland.) * Irish Examiner * Terrific energy . . . sparkling and evocative -- Alannah Hopkin * Irish Examiner * A really vivacious account of frayed family relationships across decades and around the world * Financial Times Podcast * Desperately funny, hysterically sad, so beautiful and so humane. All of life is in it. I utterly adored it -- Meg Mason Grand hooked me like a fish. It is a tale of recovery and growth [and] deep, deep love -- New York Times Author Information"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 provided commentary for radio and written for the Irish Times, the Independent and the Irish Examiner. In New Zealand, she has written columns, reviews, first-person essays and features for a wide range of media including Metro, the NZ Herald and Newsroom. She is the International Institute of Modern Letters Writer in Residence for 2023." Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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