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Home economics
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- Book Synopsis
- 'Since I've had my first book published, I've earned more from cleaning than from writing. The home economics don't add up.' Between 2015 and 2021 Caitrìona Lally published her first two novels, Eggshells and Wunderland. To buy her time to write during those years, she returned to the housekeeping department at Trinity College Dublin, a job she enjoyed as a student. This began a negotiation between the practical and creative demands of her life, further complicated when she became pregnant and downright baffling when the pandemic hit. At Trinity, Lally and her colleagues moved through empty, hallowed libraries, bonding over rude conference attendees. At home, she was raising two children who didn't sleep. And the success of her first book was making her second novel seem even more arduous. Amidst all this, it was cleaning work that brought her satisfaction - immediate and lasting. In her first memoir, Lally writes with honesty and humour about trying to solve the equation of mother + cleaner + writer. Forward and thought-provoking, self-deprecating and soaked in her singularly frank voice, Caitrìona Lally puzzles over personal economics, creativity and what 'success' and 'failure' really mean in this writer's life.
- About The Author
- CAITRÍONA LALLY is the recipient of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature (2018) and a Lannan Fellowship for Fiction (2019). In October 2021, she was announced as the inaugural Rooney Writer Fellow at Trinity Long Room Hub. Her first novel, Eggshells, was published in the US by Melville House (2017) and in the UK by Borough Press (2018). Caitrìona lives in Dublin and divides her time between her young children, writing and working in the housekeeping department at Trinity College Dublin. Her second novel, Wunderland, was published in 2021 by New Island Books and Home Economics is her first memoir.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781835940358
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- New Island Books, (17 April 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 304
- Weight
- 332 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 204 x 138 mm
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