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.
"Literary in style but as propulsive as a thriller, 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. Compelling, exquisitely written and painfully perceptive" - Daily Express
"A gripping character study . . . Sweeney shines a light on the grimy underbelly of family life in scenes so searing you almost wince to read them" - Daily Mail
"Breakdown is set to be one of the most talked-about books of 2024. The novel follows as [a woman] breaks societal rules and taboos in a quest for freedom, while contemplating a woman's lot in the Ireland of the 2020's" - Irish Sunday Times
"Cathy Sweeney has managed to capture the unique interiority of a middle-aged, middle-class family woman who is hellbent on blowing her life up. Sweeney has the swagger and elan of a much more seasoned writer" - Irish Independent Weekend
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