Breakdown (eBook)

The humane Irish Bestseller about the dark side of modern motherhood

Cathy Sweeney (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
Orion (Verlag)
978-1-4746-1854-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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'ObserverMothers 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.1.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Partnerschaft / Sexualität
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• ISBN-10: 1-4746-1854-5 / 1474618545
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4746-1854-0 / 9781474618540