BREAKDOWN : THE HUMANE IRISH BESTSELLER ABOUT THE DARK SIDE OF MODERN MOTHERHOOD PB – CATHY SWEENEY

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.