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Gavin McCrea
Gavin McCrea is the author of two critically acclaimed novels, Mrs…
DiscoverCells: An evening with Gavin McCrea
Gavin McCrea's critically acclaimed fiction - Mrs Engels and The Sisters Mao - has enthralled the booksellers at Lighthouse Books. Now he brings them a remarkable, arresting memoir in Cells.
Join Gavin at Lighthouse Books on Thursday 17th November from 7pm.
‘A life recollected in vivid scenes, Cells is both brutal and tender in its depiction of the relationships that shape a self. Leading the reader through moments of darkness and of luminosity alike, this is a work of intellect and eloquence, but also a work of great heart." — Doireann Ní Ghríofa, author of A Ghost in the Throat
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Cells
‘Flayingly authentic and sensationally compelling … one of the best books of the year.’ The Observer
?‘A book that few authors would have the courage to write, nor the skill to write so well.’ Irish Independent
‘Are you going into town today?’ she says, which annoys me because it’s something she says all the time, having forgotten she said it before, and I say, ‘Jesus, Mum, not this again,’ and she says, ‘What again?’ and I say, ‘Town is shut down,’ and while she can see I am upset and wants not to upset me like this, she is also wounded by my tone, and I am ashamed then and can…
