{"product_id":"the-wardrobe-department-9781805302360","title":"The Wardrobe Department","description":"\u003cp\u003eMairead 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut, despite her skill and growing experience, half of Mairead 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, Mairead is caught, running from the girl she was but unable to reveal the woman she'd hoped to become. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTold 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eElaine Garvey\u003c\/b\u003e is from Co. Sligo, Ireland. She completed an M.Phil. in Creative Writing in Trinity College, Dublin in 2000. Her short stories have been published in the\u003ci\u003e Dublin Review\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWinter Papers\u003c\/i\u003e. She has worked as a programme co-ordinator at the \u003ci\u003eStinging Fly\u003c\/i\u003e, was awarded an agility grant for her writing and has recently been selected as a participant on a basic income scheme for artists by the Irish Department of Arts. \u003ci\u003eThe Wardrobe Department\u003c\/i\u003e is her first novel.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Canongate Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51589858394386,"sku":"9781805302360","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_80a0ad88-647c-4a30-9c6f-1a7827d65a22.jpg?v=1756810881","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-wardrobe-department-9781805302360","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}