From a Washington Post review by Ron Charles headlined “An Irish woman looks back, with plenty of humor and heartbreak”:

If I’d been paying better attention or still had kids at home, I might have heard about the Irish writer Caroline O’Donoghue earlier. She’s a witty newspaper columnist in Britain, the author of a supernatural series for teens called “The Gifts” and the host of “Sentimental Garbage,” a podcast dedicated to “the culture we love that society can sometimes make us feel ashamed of.”