This Interim Time is Oona Frawley's deeply personal memoir that intertwines reflections on the deaths and births that have shaped her life, exploring themes of grief, love, and the complex interplay between loss and gratitude.
Binding: Paperback
Date Published: 15 May 2025
The follow-on to her sensational debut novel Flight, Oona Frawley’s This Interim Time is a unique and deeply personal memoir about the deaths and births that have shaped her life and transformed how she understands the world. Through a forensic application of the artist’s eye on these momentous occasions – intensely personal and entirely universal – we travel into the lives of her parents and the experience of family on both sides of the Atlantic. How do we live when our loved ones are dying? How do we make sense of the world in their wake? And how are such losses countered by birth? A writer witnesses her mother’s descent into dementia at the same time as her dear friend is stricken with cancer. Through their illnesses and following their deaths, she is propelled to reconsider the death of her father in New York decades earlier. While grieving, she parents two young children who bring such joy that the state of loss is always seesawing with that of profound gratitude for the present. This Interim Time is a series of intertwined, fragmented essays, pieces of memoir that reflect on death, birth, and the legacies of love that stay with us.
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 has taught at the City University of New York, University College Dublin, Queen's University, Belfast and Trinity College, Dublin. She currently lectures at the Irish National University, Maynooth. She has published five books, including first novel, Flight, which was published in 2014 by Tramp Press. She lives in Wicklow with her family.
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'A gorgeous dispatch on origins and rootedness, on what we lose and gain as we move through this world. It is rare to read a thing so true, that shows you its beating heart word by word.' -- Sue Rainsford
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