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The Wardrobe Department
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AN IRISH TIMES DEBUT AUTHOR TO LOOK OUT FOR 2025 'Beautifully written' LOUISE KENNEDY 'Full of verve and wit and humanity' MARY COSTELLO 'Clever and original' TLS 'A tremendous new talent' KEVIN BARRY The Wardrobe Department follows Mairéad, who works tirelessly in a run-down West End...
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A stunning debut examining the ache we all have to belong, from a major new literary talent
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AN IRISH TIMES DEBUT AUTHOR TO LOOK OUT FOR 2025
'Beautifully written' LOUISE KENNEDY
'Full of verve and wit and humanity' MARY COSTELLO
'Clever and original' TLS
'A tremendous new talent' KEVIN BARRY
The Wardrobe Department follows Mairéad, who works tirelessly in a run-down West End theatre's wardrobe department—mending shoes, fixing broken zips, and even handwashing underwear. She must also sidestep groping hands backstage and withstand the relentless bullying of the show's producer.
The job was meant to be the first step towards the life Mairéad has always wanted, and yet half of her remains back home in Ireland, along with everything she abandoned there.
A reckoning with the past is coming and, with it, the need to forge a new present—one stitch at a time.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781837261031
Publisher: Canongate Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 15 January 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Canongate Books
Edition: Main
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 15.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 195g
Pages: 240
About the Author
Elaine Garvey 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 Dublin Review and Winter Papers. She has worked as a programme co-ordinator at the Stinging Fly, 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. The Wardrobe Department is her first novel.
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