LAUNCH: Oona Frawley | This Interim Time
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Join us to celebrate the launch of Oona Frawley’s new book This Interim Time from The Lilliput Press at 6pm on Tuesday 13th May. Oona will be introduced by Emilie Pine and refreshments will be served. All are welcome.
ABOUT THE BOOK
The follow-on to her sensational debut novel Flight, Oona Frawley’s This Interim Time is a unique and deeply personal collection of personal essays on the deaths and births that have shaped her life and transformed how she understands the world. How do we live when our loved ones are dying? How do we make sense of the world in their wake? And how do we balance love in the present with memory of the past? As she witnesses her mother’s descent into dementia and a beloved friend’s cruel battle with cancer, Oona Frawley reconsiders the death of her father in New York decades earlier, the loss of her parents’ home in Ireland before she was born, and the births of her own children. Balancing between grief at the passing of those closest to her, and joy at the emergence of new life, Frawley has wrought a stunning meditation on memory, family and the brief windows of life we share with those we love. Utterly humane, fearlessly honest and always, at its core, hopeful, This Interim Time is a powerful, moving work at once intensely personal and entirely universal.
PRAISE FOR THIS INTERIM TIME
‘An exquisitely observed meditation on grief that leaves us at a place of wonder.’ Paul Lynch, author of Prophet Song
‘A moving collection … Beautiful and lyrical, this book will keep you company in both bright and dark times. For anyone who loved Joan Didion’s Year of Magical Thinking, this book is for you.’ Emilie Pine, author of Notes to Self
‘A gorgeous dispatch on origins and rootedness, on what we lose and gain as we move through this world. It is rare to read a thing so true, that shows you its beating heart word by word.’ Sue Rainsford, author of Follow Me To Ground
‘This Interim Time is beautiful both in its intention and in its execution. A book made luminous by hurt, graced by insight and love. Michael Ondaatje’s words ‘the heart is an organ of fire’ run through it. A haunting and brilliant collection.’ Eoin McNamee, author of The Bureau
‘A beautifully-paced unravelling of family time that patiently untangles the snags of births and deaths. A performance of memory as a recursive eulogy that questions itself: how can words wrap vulnerable bodies; how can they stretch around the unworded mysteries of life, of what happens after and before?’ Joanna Walsh, author of Girl Online
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Oona Frawley was born in New York in 1972 to Irish parents and spent part of each year in Ireland as a child. She received a doctorate in Irish literature from the Graduate School and University Center in New York and taught at the City University of New York, Queen’s University Belfast and Trinity College Dublin. She has lectured at Maynooth University since 2008. She has published twelve books, including her first novel, Flight, which was published in 2014 by Tramp Press. She lives in Wicklow with her family.
