Noelle McCarthy’s memoir is a darkly comic portrait of a complex mother-daughter relationship
Memoir
The family was unusual as Mammy had a very significant problem. Picture posed
Estelle Birdy
Noelle McCarthy, originally from Cork’s northside, had an illustrious career in New Zealand media, on radio and in print, but it wasn’t until she won the Fish Publishing International Short Memoir Prize that her true talent shone.
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