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The Wardrobe Department

The Wardrobe Department

Garvey, Elaine

Hardcover

General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $27.00

ISBN10: 1805302361
ISBN13: 9781805302360
Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: Sep 9 2025
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.75
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Mairead 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 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.

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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