2023 Winner Best First Book – Ockham EH McCormick Prize for General Non Fiction
2023 Finalist Ockham General Non Fiction Award
The astonishing debut memoir about mothers and daughters, drinking, birth and loss, running away and homecoming from prize-winning writer and broadcaster Noelle McCarthy.
\”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, ’80s and ’90s to sparkling Auckland in the first years of the new millennium, Grand is a story of the invisible ties that bind us, of bitter legacies handed down through the generations, and of the leap of faith it takes to change them.
ISBN: 9780143776109
Publication date: 29/03/2022
Price: $35.00
RRP: $35.00
Format: Trade Paperback
Available stock: 1
Publishing status: Active
Author: McCarthy, Noelle
Imprint: Penguin Books
