Academy Day

By Laura Carpenter

In a Galway club stitched together by aunties, coaches, cocoa, and hard rules that keep young people safe, Gr inne is trying to do two things at once: play football at an academy level, and learn how to live inside a nervous system that doesn't always cooperate.
When a minor's training clip is posted without consent and the town's appetite for gossip turns into a weather system, the adults who "hold the line on ordinary days" step forward-quietly, firmly, and without spectacle. Boundaries go on the wall. Quiet corners are built on purpose. Breath becomes a skill, not a shame. And a teenage girl learns that courage isn't loud-it's consistent.
A tender, razor-true Irish contemporary about community care, safeguarding, and the kind of love that looks like showing up, again and again, when nobody's watching.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GNGZ2FZD
• ISBN13: 9798248309283
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"