Hilary is four, not yet five, and she has a mother and a father and an older brother and sisters. She even has a name at home—Billy—that is different from her written-down name. But now that she is in Low Babies in the local convent school, it seems Hilary has something else called responsibilities. The world is a changing place. Hilary’s parents, themselves products of a country bathed in sanctifying grace, and presided over by leather-strapped Christian Brothers, wimpled nuns, and a strictly ingrained moral code, start to question their own life choices. As she begins to mature, Hilary’s perspective shifts from a confusing mosaic of half-understood conversations, bizarre rules, and surreal religious symbolism, to a growing awareness of the eccentricities of the adult world around her, where money is tight, ideas are unorthodox, and where living life to the full is the goal. As her parents’ unconventional lifestyle rubs against the grain of a pervasive Catholic society, the cracks begin to appear: siblings are expelled from school; final demands litter the hallway; and Hilary discovers the truth about the always-present but never-to-be-mentioned golden-haired lady. Hopscotch is a funny, poignant, and beautifully-written memoir, a spellbinding meditation on innocence, love, and memory itself.
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Hilary Fannin is a playwright and columnist. Her plays include Mackerel Sky, Doldrum Bay, Famished Castle, and an adaptation of Racine’s Phaedra. She was writer in association at the Abbey Theatre in its centenary year, 2004. She has also written extensively for radio, both for BBC and RTÉ. As a journalist, she wrote the TV review for the Irish Times for almost five years. She now writes an occasionally humorous weekly column for the paper.
"Quite brilliant; beautifully, cleverly observed; funny, heart-breaking." —Roddy Doyle
"Brilliantly written and absolutely hilarious. Hilary is an extraordinary writer and Hopscotch is destined to become a classic of the form." —Donal Ryan
"The best book I read last year. A heartbreaking story masterfully written." —Paul Howard
"Hilary Fannin carries the reader deep into the mind of a little girl baffled by the world around in her candid, intoxicating memoir . . . a lucid, crystalline and intoxicating style. Hopscotch tells a private story with candour and exactitude, love and understanding, artfulness and wit." —Irish Times
"Hopscotch captures the joys, fears and bewilderments of a 1960s Dublin childhood through the wonderful prism of an innocent young girl’s puzzled attempts to navigate the muddy waters of her parents’ world. It is written with a deft sleight of hand that makes it wonderfully funny and moving." —Sunday Independent
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