27-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
‘The objective of the book wasn't to hurt my family, it was to free myself' – Author and activist Rosita Sweetman on her candid new memoir
Rosita Sweetman talks about finding catharsis in writing a new memoir that delves into her childhood, as well as the broken marriage in which her husband had an affair with her sister, leading to Rosita's estrangement from her siblings
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Although much of Rosita Sweetman's explosively honest new memoir, Girl with a Fork in a World of Soup, documents the turbulent years of her marriage, the crux of the story, the two events from which it feels all subsequent events follow, come almost at the start, when she is only a child.
After a small, unexpected inheritance, Sweetman and her twin sister, aged nine, are sent to boarding school. 'Mum got 300 quid in an envelope one night from Archbishop McQuaid. Because a relative of hers had left his millions to him,' she tells me almost casually.
