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Grand
- Author
- Noelle McCarthy
- Narrator
- Noelle McCarthy
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 15 June 2023
- Run Time
- 8 hours 37 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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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's lost.
As soon as she can, in the early years of the millennium, Noelle runs away. All the way to New Zealand. Yet, the demons of the past give chase and Noelle seems fated to throw away her future, just like her mother. Somehow, she gets out of the hole and makes a new life. But then Carol gets sick, and finally it's time to face the past and everything that's waiting back home.
Grand is a dazzlingly honest memoir about becoming a modern woman.
'Desperately funny, hysterically sad, so beautiful and so humane. All of life is in it' Meg Mason
©2023 Noelle McCarthy (P)2023 Penguin Audio
Critics Review
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A natural storyteller with a Sedaris-like eye for black humour. There are sharp splinters of comic relief . . . compelling and nuanced
Irish Times
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Desperately funny, hysterically sad, so beautiful and so humane. All of life is in it. I utterly adored it
Meg Mason
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Grand hooked me like a fish . . . a tale of recovery and growth [and] deep, deep love
New York Times
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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
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A really vivacious account of frayed family relationships across decades and around the world
Financial Times
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Remarkably funny, honest and often sad . . . there's a whole pile of un-maudlin heart and a whole lot of love here
Sunday Independent
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A searingly honest memoir, as close to the bone as it is to the heart
Maia Dunphy
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Deeply moving and surprisingly funny
Irish Examiner
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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
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Savagely brilliant
Business Post
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Details
- Author
- Noelle McCarthy
- Narrator
- Noelle McCarthy
- Duration
- 8 hours 37 minutes
- Release Date
- 15 June 2023
- ISBN
- 9781844886678
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Memoirs, Intergenerational relationships: advice, topics and issues, Coping with / advice about addiction
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.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's lost.As soon as she can, in the early years of the millennium, Noelle runs away. All the way to New Zealand. Yet, the demons of the past give chase and Noelle seems fated to throw away her future, just like her mother. Somehow, she gets out of the hole and makes a new life. But then Carol gets sick, and finally it's time to face the past and everything that's waiting back home.Grand is a dazzlingly honest memoir about becoming a modern woman.'Desperately funny, hysterically sad, so beautiful and so humane. All of life is in it' Meg Mason©2023 Noelle McCarthy (P)2023 Penguin Audio
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