Breakdown

One winter morning, in contemporary Dublin, a middle-class woman wakes up next to her husband in her suburban home, and without conscious purpose, walks out the front door to begin a journey that ultimately leads to profound transfiguration. She travels first by car and then train to Rosslare, from where she takes a ferry to Fishguard in Wales. Along the way, she finds herself in service stations, shopping centres, train stations, ferry terminals; recalling her youth, earlier fantasies of suicide and reminiscing about those people who have come in and out of her life. Finally, 48 hours later, alone and isolated in a cottage in Wales, in a strange and eerie landscape, the woman reaches her nadir. Breakdown is a novel about the rage and reckoning of a middle aged, educated woman who has lived her life in accordance with the expectations of society.

Product details

• Authors: Cathy Sweeney, Sweeney Cathy
• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.01.2023
• EAN: 9781474618526
• ISBN: 978-1-4746-1852-6
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 10 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Women, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Divorce & Separation, FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, Feminism & feminist theory, Separation & divorce, Gender studies: women, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary