Books
Finding My Wild: Emotional retelling of a bittersweet homecoming and making peace with life
Journalist Kathy Donaghy’s first book follows her return to the rugged coast of Donegal where she grew up and her desperate struggle to mother a third child
In sensual, clear prose, Kathy Donaghy’s memoir describes scenes from her childhood in Donegal: a frozen waterfall, “seas” of bluebells and snowdrops, the moonlit vastness of Lough Foyle, and an enormous salmon wrapped in newspaper.
The roaming girl who grew up with an Atlantic inlet on one side and the woods of Inishowen on the other, left for college in Dublin, but never thought she had gone for good. Sometimes the idea of return seemed ...
