One Of Ireland's most popular novelists and the author of the booker prize-winning paddy clarke ha ha ha movingly depicts a woman, both strong and fragile, who is fighting back and finally equipped to be a mother to her ...One Of Ireland's most popular novelists and the author of the booker prize-winning paddy clarke ha ha ha movingly depicts a woman, both strong and fragile, who is fighting back and finally equipped to be a mother to her children. But now that they're mostly grown up, is it too late?