Elaine Garvey, AUTHOR
Elaine Garvey is from County Sligo, Ireland. Her first novel, The Wardrobe Department is her first novel.
‘The Wardrobe Department is such a beautiful book. London theatre and rural Ireland. Elaine Garvey has created two exquisitely drawn worlds that I know so well and brought them to life through the eyes of a young woman who could be my best friend. I loved it. Will read it again and again and again.’
DENISE GOUGH
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The Wardrobe Department, an Irish Book Awards nominee for Newcomer of the Year in 2025, is available to order now.
PRAISE FOR THE WARDROBE DEPARTMENT
‘The Wardrobe Department is such a beautiful book. London theatre and rural Ireland. Elaine Garvey has created two exquisitely drawn worlds that I know so well and brought them to life through the eyes of a young woman who could be my best friend. I loved it. Will read it again and again and again’
‘I loved this novel – and Mairéad’s frantic, anguished mind. The Wardrobe Department is full of verve and wit and humanity. In writing that is sharp and sassy, Garvey captures perfectly the complexities and heartbreak of a young woman’s life and the great pull and push of home’
‘Elaine Garvey is a tremendous new talent in Irish writing – I’m certain the reader will recognise inside half a page that she’s the real thing’
‘A gift of a novel… There are sentences in this book that will keep me going for a long time’
‘Both delicate and fierce, heart-breaking and ultimately hopeful. The writing is as sharp and sure as a dressmaker’s scissors’
‘The Wardrobe Department is at once familiar and surprising, knotty and tender, tough and beguiling, and its author a sure hand with a light touch’
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