by Kathryn Crowley<\/p>\n
Is it true? Did it really happen to you? Some of it did!<\/p>\n
‘Room for One More’ depicts snapshots of the author’s childhood in Killarney, her time in boarding school in Co. Cork, her college years in Dublin and her subsequent travels.<\/p>\n
The short stories that these snapshots inspire, range from and emigrant’s Christmas in Australia in ‘Waiting for Christmas,’ a drama in a nursing home in ‘Returning Home,’ and a sinister feud in an Argentine village in ‘And Then Came the War.’<\/p>\n
This collection of memoirs and short stories offers a varied and enjoyable read to those of us who sometimes wonder, ‘could that really happen?’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"store":[],"product_cat":[458,456],"product_tag":[],"meta_data":null,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8970,"url":"https:\/\/www.buythebook.ie\/product\/where-the-faeries-dwell\/","url_meta":{"origin":11480,"position":0},"title":"Where The Faeries Dwell: Shortlisted for the 2023 Carousel Aware Prize","author":"Mary Flora","date":"December 29, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"This is a compilation of short stories based on the tales my grandmother told me as a child about the interactions between the human folks and the Sidhe, the Faery folk. I have encompassed the colourful threads of her stories and woven them into my own tapestry. 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