The Celestial Realm
by Molly Hennigan
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Pub Date 31 Aug 2023 | Archive Date 18 Sep 2023
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Description
"Phil doesn't like physical affection. She doesn't love you because you don't exist. She doesn't care if you have something important coming up. A busy week, a daunting appointment, a divorce, because she believes the world is going to end in the morning. Every morning."
Having grown up visiting her grandmother in various psychiatric hospitals, Molly Hennigan began writing about the gaps in and intimacies of her relationship with this matriarch. Tracing the organic path of her grandmother's experience to her great-grandmother's time in Irish metal hospitals, she explores her own family trauma and what it means to be an unconventional woman in a society that values conformity.
Advance Praise
''In The Celestial Realm Molly Hennigan excavates family and social history in electrically eloquent prose, finding profound insight and flashes of grounding humour in even the most potentially overwhelming, dark material. A defiant, deeply powerful book' - author of Young Skins and Homesickness
'Molly Hennigan brings original and raw perspective to subjects that have fascinated and bewildered readers for centuries - family, legacy and love' - author of Seven Steeples
'It is written with wisdom and fearlessness, it is lyrical and compassionate, and reminds me of Annie Ernaux in its clarity and intelligence. It is a sincerely important work for Ireland right now' - author of This Happy and We Were Young
'A tender, clear-eyed sketch of the connective tissue that binds women across generations' - author of A Ghost in the Throat
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781804184066 |
| PRICE | £12.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 176 |
