05/06/2026
It's here... Noelle McCarthy's darkly funny, visceral follow-up to the acclaimed memoir Grand has arrived🧛
Growing up in Catholic Ireland, Noelle McCarthy is captivated by Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The vampire is a risk-free fantasy, a suave alternative to the fraught realities of desire.
Twenty years later, exhausted by her unruly appetites, Noelle returns to Dracula, reckoning with her own history and a changing world: generation-spanning shame and trauma given voice by the MeToo movement and the horrors emerging from Irish soil.
Stakes by Noelle McCarthy is available now.
