Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way
«Expertly balances light and darkness, in a story that grips and engages... Sizzling, electric ... charged with humour and anger, reinvigorating and unexpected ...I loved it so»
Jenny Mustard
**AN INSTANT IRISH TIMES TOP 5 BESTSELLER**
**ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED NOVELS OF 2025 AS SELECTED BY THE OBSERVER, THE IRISH TIMES, JOURNAL.IE, RTE GUIDE AND SUNDAY TIMES IRELAND**
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**AN INSTANT IRISH TIMES TOP 5 BESTSELLER**
**ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED NOVELS OF 2025 AS SELECTED BY THE OBSERVER, THE IRISH TIMES, JOURNAL.IE, RTE GUIDE AND SUNDAY TIMES IRELAND**
The deeply moving story of the O’Connor family, its troubled past in the West of Ireland, and a love story of second chances from the Booker-longlisted author of How to Build a Boat
'A superb, multi-generational story told in stunning, poetic prose. Elaine Feeney is one of Irish literature's most gifted and persuasive storytellers.' SINÉAD GLEESON
'I believe [this] is the best book of 2025' Oliver Callan, RTE RADIO
'Hugely powerful' DAILY MAIL
'Superb' IRISH TIMES
'An uncanny understanding of the workings of the human heart. I loved this book' LOUISE KENNEDY
'Full of humanity, a story for our times' MARY COSTELLO
Claire O’Connor’s life has been on hold since she broke up with Tom Morton and moved from London back home to the rugged West of Ireland to care for her dying father. But glimpses of her old life are sure to follow when Tom unexpectedly moves nearby. As Claire is thrown into a love she thought she’d left behind, she questions if Tom has come for her or for himself.
Living in her childhood home brings its own challenges. While Claire tries to maintain a normal life – getting lost online, going to work and minding her own business – Tom’s return stirs up haunting memories trapped within the walls of the old family house.
Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way is a story of love and resilience, rich with history and drama, and the legacies of violence and redemption. As the secrets of the past are revealed, Claire must confront whether she can escape her history to make a future for herself.
'Sizzling, electric... charged with humour and anger... I loved it' JENNY MUSTARD
'The pull of home feels as irresistible as it is destabilising, forcing a confrontation with unspeakable truths' OBSERVER
'Clear-eyed and deep-hearted... packs an intellectual and emotional punch' CLAIRE-LOUISE BENNETT
'This book touched my soul' KATRIONA O'SULLIVAN
'Feeney will break your heart with her characters but she will also lovingly put it back together again' EDEL COFFEY
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Harvill Secker
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 320
- ISBN
- 9781787303478
- Utgivelsesår
- 2025
- Format
- 22 x 14 cm
Om forfatteren
Elaine Feeney is an acclaimed novelist and poet from the west of Ireland. Her debut novel,
As You Were, was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Irish Novel of the Year Award, and won the Kate O’Brien Award, the McKitterick Prize and the Dalkey Festival Emerging Writer Award.
How to Build a Boat was also shortlisted for Irish Novel of the Year, longlisted for the Booker Prize, and was a
New Yorker Best Book of the Year. Feeney has published the poetry collections
Where’s Katie?,
The Radio Was Gospel,
Rise and
All the Good Things You Deserve, and lectures at the University of Galway.
Anmeldelser
«Expertly balances light and darkness, in a story that grips and engages... Sizzling, electric ... charged with humour and anger, reinvigorating and unexpected ...I loved it so»
Jenny Mustard
«Superb... Feeney examines everything from intergenerational trauma and violence to tradwives, with insight, wit and compassion»
Irish Times, Summer Reads
«The pull of home feels as irresistible as it is destabilising, forcing a confrontation with unspeakable truths... With a poet's eye, Feeney reflects on inherited trauma as well as today's 'trad wide' phenomenon»
Observer
«An ambitious, thoughtful, nicely layered book»
Irish Times
«This is a clear-eyed and deep-hearted calibration of accumulating trauma, which Feeney skillfully conveys the scope and heft of while considering what it might take to halt it in its devastating tracks. She has the novelist's instinct of wanting to get to the bottom of painful situations, yet she is also a first-class poet who knows that painful situations are often fathomless and ineffable. What we get then is a driven, tenacious, and probing narrative, made up of deeply expressive sentences that bristle and ache. Curious, sensitive, and unfeignedly visceral, Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way packs an intellectual and emotional punch as it asks that most difficult of questions – What now?»
Claire-Louise Bennett
«One of the finest writers of her generation ... Feeney will break your heart with her characters but she will also lovingly put it back together again. »
Edel Coffey
«Feeney's warmth, compassion and bravery on the page... Her writing is so natural...that it seems at times miraculous.»
Lisa McInerney
«Astonishing ... A book about how women hold power and space wand how the truths passed down by women from generation to generation create a shadow history that stands as a corrective to received narratives.»
Jessica Traynor
«A strong story that packs an emotional punch ... In presenting both a political and personal history, Feeney delivers a moving meditation on enforced female roles in Irish society both past and present, the heavy pall of grief and the unceasing encroachment of the past into the present»
Irish Independent
«An emotionally layered novel about memory, grief and resilience»
Image Magazine
«I absolutely loved this novel - a story of lost love and longing that tears open to reveal a whole history of violence, told with the effortless intelligence and extraordinary compassion.»
Rosie Price, author of THE ORANGE ROOM
«A beautiful digressive trip through modern life, and a far-wider-reaching, wildly ambitious vision of what it means to be Irish and a person right now.»
Roisin Kiberd
«A startling and original novel loaded with insight on the long reach of traumas both personal and political.»
Sarah Gilmartin
«Conveyed with lyricism and longing.»
Observer, *Books to Look Out For 2025*
«Beautifully written ... Devastating, true and timely»
Zöe Venditozzi
«A powerful, poignant book»
Economist, *The Best Books of the Year So far*
«Feeney has created a brilliant metaphor in the O’Connor family home… It’s a hugely satisfying, sophisticated structure»
Guardian
«Feeney’s astute lyricism makes for a marvellously engaging story»
Mail on Sunday
«One of Irish literature's most gifted and persuasive storytellers.»
Sinéad Gleeson
«An uncanny understanding of the workings of the human heart. I loved this book. »
Louise Kennedy
«This book touched my soul ... A perfect depiction of the complicated relationships we have with ourselves and our histories.»
Katriona O'Sullivan
«Lulls the reader with its lyrical beauty, then slowly devastates with its raw passion and pain ... Shocking, intelligent and full of humanity, this is a story for our times.»
Mary Costello
«A very strong novel and I was gripped by it throughout»
Alex Clark, RTE Radio
«Hugely powerful ...likely one of the most original you'll read this year»
Daily Mail
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