{"product_id":"9781474618519","title":"Breakdown : The humane Irish Bestseller about the dark side of modern motherhood","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Sweeney, Cathy \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 18\/01\/2024,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 224 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781474618519,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne winter morning on an ordinary day in contemporary Dublin, an ordinary middle-class woman wakes up in her ordinary suburban home. Her husband is next to her in bed, her teenage children sleeping nearby.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithout thinking much about it, she walks out the front door and never comes back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe travels first by car, then train, then ferry. Along the way, she finds herself in service stations and shopping centres, hotel bars and hairdressers - and in the beds of strange men.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinally, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom one of Ireland's most provocative and admired writers, this is a story of rage and reckoning, joy and transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42890551492652,"sku":"9781474618519","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781474618519_d6c47c21-c483-48a3-aa06-c5ad1857ba8d.jpg?v=1759668802","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781474618519","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}