Stakes: Noelle McCarthy
Growing up in Catholic Ireland, Noelle McCarthy was captivated by the fantasy of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, a risk-free alternative to the fraught realities of desire. Twenty years later, in her memoir Stakes, Noelle returns to Dracula, reckoning with her own history and a changing world: generation-spanning shame and trauma given voice by the #MeToo movement and the horrors emerging from Irish soil. She joins Claire Mabey in conversation.
Read about Stakes from the NZ Herald here.
Unity Books did an interview with Noelle here.
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Noelle McCarthy
Noelle McCarthy is an author, broadcaster and producer. Her latest memoir Stakes is an account of a life-long obsession
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Claire Mabey
Claire Mabey is a writer, founder of Verb Wellington, LitCrawl Wellington and books editor at The Spinoff. Her first nov
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