Carmel Mc Mahon

In 1993, aged twenty, Carmel Mc Mahon left Ireland for New York, carrying $500, two suitcases, and a ton of unseen baggage. It took years, and a bitter struggle with alcohol addiction, to unpick the intricate traumas of her past and present. Candid yet lyrical, In Ordinary Time mines the ways that trauma reverberates through time and through individual lives,...