Openhearted Eighty Years of Love, Loss, Laughter and Letting Go

SHORTLISTED FOR TWO IRISH BOOK AWARDSbr>br>''Something they don''t tell you about getting older is that you fall. Oh, you hear about it in passing, of course, "She had a fall, poor thing". Falling is not something you ever think about as a younger woman. You think about falling in love . . .''br>br>At 20 Londoner Ann Ingle fell madly in love with an Irish fellow she met on holiday in Cornwall. At the church to arrange their shotgun wedding she discovered that he hadn''t even told her his real name.br>br>Sixty-odd years later Ann looks back on that first glorious fall and in a series of essays considers what she has learned from the life that followed - bringing eight children into the world, their father''s years of mental illness and tragic death at 40, being a cash-strapped single mother in 1980s Dublin, coming into her own in her middle years - going to college, working and writing, and continuing to evolve and learn into her ninth decade, even as she accepts the realities of being ''old''.br>br>Candid about everything that matters - love, sex, heartbreak, money, class, religion, mental health, rearing children (and letting them go), reading and writing, ageing - Open-Hearted is a compelling story about living life in a spirit of curiosity and delight and with a willingness to look for good in others.br>br>_________________________________br>br>''By some distance the most courageous, most poignant, most life-affirming memoir I''ve read in the last twenty years and more'' Paul Howardbr>br>''Genuinely inspirational. I LOVE ANN INGLE'' Marian Keyesbr>br>''What a beautiful openhearted, at times broken-hearted memoir ... honest, funny, searingly direct, a wonderful voice ... remarkable'' Joe Duffybr>br>''Really beautiful. Searingly honest, astonishingly frank and very, very funny'' Maia Dunphy>

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Originally from London, Ann Ingle has lived in Dublin since the 1960s and is a mother of eight. In 2018, she co-wrote Driven, the memoir of motorsport legend Rosemary Smith, which was shortlisted for an Irish Book Award. Her first memoir, Openhearted, was shortlisted in two categories at the Irish Book Awards 2021

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Ann Ingle
• Verlag: Penguin Books Uk
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 31.03.2022
• Thema: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Briefe, Tagebücher
• EAN: 9780241993521
• ISBN: 978-0-241-99352-1
• Anzahl Seiten: 304
• Abmessung (Verpackung): 12.9 x 19.8 x 1.8 cm
• Themen: England, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Michelle Obama, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Love & Romance, Joan Didion, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Inspiration & Personal Growth, Memoirs, SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / General, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Women Authors, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Motherhood, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Life Stages / Later Years, 21st Century, Self-help & personal development, Coping with death & bereavement, Ireland, Maggie O'Farrell, Dating, relationships, living together & marriage, Rose Tremain, Coping with suicide, Intergenerational Relationships, Self-help, personal development and practical advice, Intergenerational relationships: advice and issues, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, Coping with ageing, Coping with old age, Glennon Doyle, Thursday Murder Club, Dating, relationships, living together and marriage: advice and issues, millennial marriage, living at 40, making midlife marvels, on chapel sands, House of Glass, Notes to Self, Caitlin Moran, lowborn kerry hudson, dear life, THE BOY THE MOLE THE FOX AND THE HORSE, what a complete aisling, motherwell deborah orr, wendy mitchell, old ireland in colour, charlie mackesy book, marie cassidy book, somebody that i used to know, a haunting midlife, your one wild and precious life, mary mcaleese, More Than a Woman, midlife method