The Wardrobe Department [electronic resource]
Elaine Garvey2025
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A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST DEBUT OF 2025
Mairéad works all hours in a run-down West End theatre’s wardrobe department,
her whole existence made up of threads and needles, running errands to mend
shoes, fixing broken zips and handwashing underwear. She must also do her best
to avoid groping hands backstage and the terrible bullying of the show’s
producer.
But, despite her skill and growing experience, half of Mairéad remains in her
windy, hedge-filled home in Ireland, and the life she abandoned there. In
noughties London, she has the potential to be somebody completely new – why,
then, does she feel so stuck? Between the bustling side streets of Soho, and the
wet grass of Leitrim and Donegal, Mairéad is caught, running from the girl she
was but unable to reveal the woman she’d hoped to become.
Told with rare honesty and equal measures of warmth and bite, The Wardrobe
Department is a story about reckoning with the past, finding the courage to
change the present – and aski...
Main title:
The Wardrobe Department [electronic resource] / Elaine Garvey
Author:
Elaine Garvey, Author
Imprint:
Edinburgh United Kingdom : Canongate Books, 2025
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Audience:
General / adult
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781837260188
Language:
English
BRN:
528378
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