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A multi-layered exploration of trauma, time, memory, grief and addiction that will captivate readers of Notes to Self, Constellations and Small Things Like TheseIn 1993, aged twenty, Carmel Mc Mahon left Ireland for New York, carrying $500, two suitcases and a ton of unseen baggage. It took years, and a bitter struggle with alcohol addiction, to unpick the intricate traumas of her past and present. Candid yet lyrical, In Ordinary Time mines the ways that trauma reverberates through time and through individual lives, drawing connections to the events and rhythms of Irelands long Celtic, early Christian and Catholic history.
