BREAKDOWN

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.