You’re invited to join us after hours in the bookshop for an intimate bookclub complete with wine and soft drinks. We’ll be discussing the exceptional memoir Grand by New Zealand writer Noelle McCarthy.

at: 19 High Street, Auckland

on: Sunday June 19th

at: 5:30pm - 7:00pm

You don’t have to have read the book (although it's so brilliant we highly recommend that you do!)

Your $5 ticket price is redeemable against a book purchase on the night.

Grand Synopsis:

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.