Product Description
Breakdown
Author: Cathy Sweeney
Format: Paperback
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
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.
‘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
‘Thrillingly relatable’ — Harper’s Bazaar
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