Love and anguish NOELLE’S GRAND PASSION

Noelle McCarthy is a writer and broadcaster who will be well known to RNZ listeners for her successful podcasts and her Summer Noelle shows. Her new book Grand: Becoming My Mother’s Daughter is a memoir of her life from Catholic Ireland in the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s, and then moving to Auckland, and that of her mother Caroline who struggled with alcohol and the pain of her losses in life.

Your new book is a memoir of your life but also your mother’s life, is this something