Breakdown ebok

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.