Parcels in the Post

Written in the present tense Parcels in the Post is a sober chronicle of the Neary’s fostering journey and what it told young Fiona about her community… Neary writes with a powerful sense of time and place… it deserves great credit for shining a harsh light on some murky corners of our society. ~Andrew Lynch, Sunday Business Post

Parcels in the Post is an inspirational, compelling read… This warm story of family life is both funny and heart wrenching… After reading this story, I feel inadequate, heartbroken but above all inspired.  It shines a light on a broken, struggling foster care system that over relies on the goodness of foster families who endure much to help others while providing a vital resource to our society… You will love it. ~Theresa Jones, Writing.ie

A NEW book filled with pathos and humour gives an insight into fostering in Ireland in the 1980s by someone at the heart of it... 

A book filled with pathos and humour, Parcels in the Post is both a memoir of a loving household and snapshot of the fostering system in Ireland.

Neary writes through the eyes of her teenage self, trying to navigate those most intense years, working part-time in a local chip shop, studying for the Leaving Cert and heading away to college. Hard enough for anyone without coming home each day not knowing for sure if another child would be at the dinner table.

Full of tender and poignant recollections, at time hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking, Neary's book is at all times compelling. ~Connaught Telegraph