This Interim Time: Essays

by The Lilliput Press

Overview

How do we live when our loved ones are dying? How do we make sense of the world in their wake? And how do we balance love in the present with memory of the past? As she witnesses her mother’s descent into dementia and a beloved friend’s cruel battle with cancer, Oona Frawley reconsiders the death of her father in New York decades earlier, the loss of her parents' home in Ireland before she was born, and the births of her own children. Balancing between grief at the passing of those closest to her, and joy at the emergence of new life, Frawley has wrought a stunning meditation on memory, family and the brief windows of life we share with those we love. Utterly humane, fearlessly honest and always, at its core, hopeful, This Interim Time is a powerful, moving work at once intensely personal and entirely universal.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781843519225
Publisher:	Lilliput Press, Limited, The
Publication date:	09/16/2025
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Oona Frawley was born in New York in 1972 to Irish parents and spent part of each year in Ireland as a child. She received a doctorate in Irish literature from the Graduate School and University Center in New York and taught at the City University of New York, Queen’s University Belfast and Trinity College Dublin. She has lectured at Maynooth University since 2008. She has published twelve books, including her first novel, Flight, which was published in 2014 by Tramp Press. She lives in Wicklow with her family.