Breakdown: The humane Irish Bestseller about the dark side of modern motherhood
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Breakdown: The humane Irish Bestseller about the dark side of modern motherhood

Breakdown: The humane Irish Bestseller about the dark side of modern motherhood

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Cathy Sweeney (Author)  

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One winter morning on an ordinary day in contemporary Dublin, an ordinary middle-class woman wakes up in her ordinary suburban home. Her husband is next to her in bed, her teenage children sleeping nearby. Without thinking much about it, she walks out the front door and never comes back. She travels first by car, then train, then ferry. Along the way, she finds herself in service stations and shopping centres, hotel bars and hairdressers - and in the beds of strange men. Finally, forty-eight hours later, alone in a cottage in Wales, the woman faces up to what she has been ignoring inside herself, her family, modern society: signs of breakdown. From one of Ireland's most provocative and admired writers, this is a story of rage and reckoning, joy and transformation.
Cathy Sweeney lives in Dublin. She studied at Trinity College and taught English at secondary level for many years before turning to writing. Her work has been published in various magazines and journals.
  • Contributor: Cathy Sweeney
  • Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  • ISBN13: 9781474618519
  • Number of Pages: 224
  • Packaged Dimensions: 142x218x24mm
  • Packaged Weight: 340
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
  • Release Date: 2024-01-18
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Cathy Sweeney lives in Dublin. She studied at Trinity College and taught English at secondary level for many years before turning to writing. Her work has been published in various magazines and journals.

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