Winner of the 2012 Amazon.ca First Novel Award
"A caustic, funny and moving fantasia of an Irish mammy going round the bend." —Emma Donoghue, author of ROOM
Our Woman will not be sunk by what life’s about to serve her. She's caught her son doing unmentionable things out by the barn. She's been accosted by Red the Twit, who claims to have done things with Our Woman’s husband that could frankly have gone without mentioning. And now her son’s gone and joined the army, and Our Woman has found a young fella to do unmentionable things with herself, just so she might understand it all... Malarky is the story of an Irish mother forced to look grief in the eye, and of a wife come face-to-face with the mad agony of longing. Comic, moving, eccentric, and spare, Anakana Schofield’s debut novel introduces a brilliant new voice in contemporary fiction.
"A caustic, funny and moving fantasia of an Irish mammy going round the bend." —Emma Donoghue, author of ROOM
Our Woman will not be sunk by what life’s about to serve her. She's caught her son doing unmentionable things out by the barn. She's been accosted by Red the Twit, who claims to have done things with Our Woman’s husband that could frankly have gone without mentioning. And now her son’s gone and joined the army, and Our Woman has found a young fella to do unmentionable things with herself, just so she might understand it all... Malarky is the story of an Irish mother forced to look grief in the eye, and of a wife come face-to-face with the mad agony of longing. Comic, moving, eccentric, and spare, Anakana Schofield’s debut novel introduces a brilliant new voice in contemporary fiction.
Amazon.ca Best Book Of 2012 Editors' Pick
Shortlisted for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
New Statesman Read-All-About-It Selection For 2012
Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick, 2012
Salon.com What-To-Read Award-Winner, 2012
Top Five Book Pick, Chatelaine
iTunes Canada Best Of 2012 Fiction Pick
Largehearted Boy Favorite Novel Of 2012
Next Best Book Blog Top 3, 2012
