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

Author: Cathy Sweeney

ISBN: 9781474618533

Price: Rs. 474.05 • ✓ 100% Genuine Publisher Edition

Book Overview

From the Irish Tatler''s Woman of the Year for Literature and one of the AN Post Irish Book Awards''s Best New Irish Writers comes a novel about one woman''s decision to leave everything behind ''Thrillingly relatable'' Harper''s Bazaar ''This funny, thoughtful novel will resonate with lots of women'' Good Housekeeping ''You won''t be able to put this down. A fascinating study of a woman who has sacrificed her dreams'' The Gloss ''A masterful account of one woman''s dramatic rebellion against society''s demands'' Daily Express ''A vivid portrait of a woman adrift'' Observer Mothers are not supposed to go on road trips . . . But one winter morning in Dublin, an ordinary woman wakes up in her ordinary home, her husband next to her in bed, her teenage children sleeping nearby. And - without thinking much about it - walks out the front door and never comes back. So begins a journey which will take her into service stations and shopping centres, hotel bars and hairdressers - and the beds of strange men. Until 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. Read more

Browse this title within our Children's Books collection. Edition details: English, 224 pages. Reference ISBN: 9781474618533.

About the Author

Cathy Sweeney is an acclaimed Irish writer and teacher whose debut story collection Modern Times received widespread critical praise.

Why Readers Pick This Edition

• You’ll love this for its quiet bravery and sharp emotional truth. It slips you inside the mind of a woman who dares to step away from the life she’s supposed to want, and asks the questions many think but rarely say aloud. Funny, unsettling, and deeply humane, it captures the exhaustion, longing, and freedom that come with choosing yourself. It’s the kind of novel that feels personal, validating, and impossible to put down.
• Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson / Orion.
• Language: English.
• Page count: 224.

Catalog Description

From the Irish Tatler''s Woman of the Year for Literature and one of the AN Post Irish Book Awards''s Best New Irish Writers comes a novel about one woman''s decision to leave everything behind ''Thrillingly relatable'' Harper''s Bazaar ''This funny, thoughtful novel will resonate with lots of women'' Good Housekeeping ''You won''t be able to put this down. A fascinating study of a woman who has sacrificed her dreams'' The Gloss ''A masterful account of one woman''s dramatic rebellion against society''s demands'' Daily Express ''A vivid portrait of a woman adrift'' Observer Mothers are not supposed to go on road trips . . . But one winter morning in Dublin, an ordinary woman wakes up in her...

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