‘I’ve been to heaven, Sinéad’ —extract from Among Communists - Books Ireland

‘I’ve been to heaven, Sinéad’ —extract from Among Communists - Books Ireland

‘My idea of the German Democratic Republic still has our old hoover at its heart.’—An extract from Among Communists by Sinéad Morrissey (Carcanet Press) I missed my mother terribly went she went off to the GDR. This missing was physical, an ache under my breastbone that grew sharpest at night, just before falling asleep. In her absence, my father ran the house like a machine, clearing away the breakfast dishes as soon as we’d eaten, scrubbing th…