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Join us for the book launch of Grappling with Ghosts, a memoir by James Harvey.
Buy his book £18.50 on the night. Cards accepted.
This will be a fascinating tale of growing up in Donegal and will appeal to anyone whose family emigrated from the West of Ireland. Q&A with the author.
Refreshments will be served.
From time as a child in an orphanage to writing speeches for presidents, James Harvey travelled a rocky road to live out the American dream. In this memoir of his childhood, Harvey recreates the daily struggles of life
in post-war rural Ireland and bomb-shattered London. This engrossing memoir grounds the struggles of the Harveys in both Irish history and British snobbery as the family fought for a place in the world. It takes the reader on a journey from the serenity of life in a rural thatched cottage … through alcohol-fuelled domestic violence in the Kilburn area bordering London’s Paddington and St. John’s Wood neighbourhoods … to the anguish of emigration.
Join us for the book launch of Grappling with Ghosts, a memoir by James Harvey.
Buy his book £18.50 on the night. Cards accepted.
This will be a fascinating tale of growing up in Donegal and will appeal to anyone whose family emigrated from the West of Ireland. Q&A with the author.
Refreshments will be served.
From time as a child in an orphanage to writing speeches for presidents, James Harvey travelled a rocky road to live out the American dream. In this memoir of his childhood, Harvey recreates the daily struggles of life
in post-war rural Ireland and bomb-shattered London. This engrossing memoir grounds the struggles of the Harveys in both Irish history and British snobbery as the family fought for a place in the world. It takes the reader on a journey from the serenity of life in a rural thatched cottage … through alcohol-fuelled domestic violence in the Kilburn area bordering London’s Paddington and St. John’s Wood neighbourhoods … to the anguish of emigration.