Carmel Mc Mahon: In Ordinary Time Fragments Of A Fa [2023] hardback Condition:Very Good bewildered and divided

bewildered and divided

she had to face a seemingly insurmountable pile of debts on her own

they form a passionate connection

In a breath-taking feat of literary virtuosity

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Carmel Mc Mahon: In Ordinary Time Fragments Of A Fa [2023] hardback Condition:Very Good bewildered and dividedIn 1993, aged twenty, Carmel Mc Mahon left Ireland for New York, carrying $500, two suitcases and a ton of unseen baggage. It took years, and a bitter struggle with alcohol addiction, to unpick the intricate traumas of her past and present. Candid yet lyrical, In Ordinary Time mines the ways that trauma reverberates through time and through individual lives, drawing connections to the events and rhythms of Ireland's long Celtic, early Christian and