Nina Gilligan

The kids have gone, the house is quiet, and the spare bedroom has become a land grab.Freedom is scary, and Nina is quietly losing her mind while pretending everything is absolutely fine… until it isn’t.After a lemoncake incident, Nina is banned from using heavy machinery.

What follows is flirting with priests, turning to witchcraft and recreational substances — and the realisation that empty nesting is less gentle clearing and more violent reinventing.Warm, sharp and self-aware, Nina Gilligan is back with a hilarious, unfiltered celebration of what it means to be a mature woman — standing in the wreckage of self-discovery and hoping there is a recipe that works.It’s not a breakdown.It’s a lemoncake moment.