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Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781473627505

Price: £8.99

ON SALE: 5th January 2017

Genre: Biography & True Stories / Memoirs

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The Sandwich Years is the heartfelt, inspirational story of the bond between mothers and daughters, and how one woman – through caring for the person she had relied on the most – finally found herself.

Alana Kirk, married with two children and a third on the way, often found herself stretched between the various demands on her time – parenting, marriage, work, friendship, self. But when her mother suffered a massive stroke, just days after the birth of daughter Ruby, Alana’s life became unrecognisable.

The next five years – ‘the sandwich years’ – were a time of heartbreak and difficult choices as Alana lost herself amid part-time caring for her mother, supporting her father and parenting three young daughters, while also attempting to get her career back on track. But it was also a time of growth and love as Alana rediscovered the joy her loved ones bring to her life, and learned how to find a way back to herself.

The Sandwich Years is a celebration of mothers and daughters, and everyday warriors.

(Previously published as Daughter, Mother, Me)

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There is real life on every page of this funny, sad and wise book
Patricia Scanlan
A heartrending account peppered with humour
Irish Examiner
A warm, familiar, touching memoir, ending sadly but hopefully and written with honesty and love
Irish Times