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The Wardrobe Department
The Wardrobe Department | Elaine Garvey
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Mairéad works all hours in a run-down West End theatre’s wardrobe department, her whole existence made up of threads and needles, running errands to mend shoes, fixing broken zips and handwashing underwear. She must also do her best to avoid groping hands backstage and the terrible bullying of the show’s producer. But, despite her skill and growing experience, half of Mairéad remains in her windy, hedge-filled home in Ireland, and the life she abandoned there. In noughties London, she has the potential to be somebody completely new – why, then, does she feel so stuck? Between the bustling side streets of Soho, and the wet grass of Leitrim and Donegal, Mairéad is caught, running from the girl she was but unable to reveal the woman she’d hoped to become. Told with rare honesty and equal measures of warmth and bite, The Wardrobe Department is a story about reckoning with the past, finding the courage to change the present – and asking what comes next.
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CarolynM
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Oh wow! I loved this. The backstage at the theatre stuff is great and the family stuff is even better. Some of the scenes between the family members felt to me like scenes from a play. The dialogue is really, really good. And I loved the Uncle Vanya references. I‘ll be looking out for Elaine Garvey‘s next book.
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squirrelbrain I‘ve been looking forward to this, but noticed it had mixed reviews on GR - you‘ve made me more interested in it again! 1d
LeahBergen Well… stacking over here! 1d
Cathythoughts And stacking over here too ! 1d
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Rissreadswithcats I do like this cover! 18h
CarolynM @squirrelbrain I love live theatre so I was fascinated by the backstage stuff at the beginning of the book, but for a while I wondered where it was going. The main character takes a bit of getting used to, but for me she was well worth it. (edited) 10h
CarolynM @LeahBergen @Cathythoughts Hope you like it too🙂 10h
CarolynM @Rissreadswithcats Me too🙂 10h
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