Breakdown
The humane Irish Bestseller about the dark side of modern motherhood
Seiten
2024
Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Verlag)
978-1-4746-1852-6 (ISBN)
Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Verlag)
978-1-4746-1852-6 (ISBN)
The Irish Times Bestselling novel about one woman's decision to leave everything behind
'Mothers are not supposed to go on road trips.'
From one of Ireland's most provocative and admired writers, this is a story of rage and reckoning, joy and transformation.
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.
'Sweeney has managed to capture the unique interiority of a middle-aged, middle-class family woman who is hellbent on blowing her life up. Sweeney has the swagger and elan of a much more seasoned writer' Irish Independent
'Literary in style but as propulsive as a thriller, you won't be able to put this down. A fascinating study of a woman who has sacrificed her dreams' The Gloss
'Set to be one of the most talked-about books of 2024' Irish Times
'A masterful account of one woman's dramatic rebellion against society's demands. Compelling, exquisitely written and painfully perceptive' Daily Express
'Mothers are not supposed to go on road trips.'
From one of Ireland's most provocative and admired writers, this is a story of rage and reckoning, joy and transformation.
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.
'Sweeney has managed to capture the unique interiority of a middle-aged, middle-class family woman who is hellbent on blowing her life up. Sweeney has the swagger and elan of a much more seasoned writer' Irish Independent
'Literary in style but as propulsive as a thriller, you won't be able to put this down. A fascinating study of a woman who has sacrificed her dreams' The Gloss
'Set to be one of the most talked-about books of 2024' Irish Times
'A masterful account of one woman's dramatic rebellion against society's demands. Compelling, exquisitely written and painfully perceptive' Daily Express
CATHY SWEENEY is a writer living in Ireland. Her short fiction has been published in the Stinging Fly, the Dublin Review, Egress , Winter Papers , Banshee and the Tangerine, and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Her debut short story collection, Modern Times, was published in 2020 and her debut novel, Breakdown, in 2024.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.01.2024 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 232 mm |
| Gewicht | 291 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Partnerschaft / Sexualität | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4746-1852-9 / 1474618529 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4746-1852-6 / 9781474618526 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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