Breakdown - Cathy Sweeney

Category: General Fiction
Language: English
Keywords: Feminism Ireland Irish Literature Mental Health

Written by Cathy Sweeney
Read by Gráinne Gillis
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

‘A masterful account of one woman’s dramatic rebellion against society’s demands’
Daily Express

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.

Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
Release date: 01-18-24