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Laura McDonagh has always felt caught between worlds. English-born but Irish-feeling, she was raised on stories of departure and return, shaped by the legacy of migration and summers spent going 'home home' to Sligo.
When the sudden death of her mother prompts her to look more closely at the forces that brought her family to England and kept them there, Laura embarks on a journey through generations of movement, memory and longing. Why does the pull of elsewhere feel so powerful? What does it feel like to really belong? And is it ever possible to make peace with a divided sense of self?
Tender, insightful and deeply resonant, Commonplace is an exploration of second-generation Irish identity, exile and home for anyone who has hesitated when asked, Where are you from?
