{"product_id":"breakdown-9781474618533b","title":"Breakdown","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eOne winter morning, in contemporary Dublin, a middle-class woman wakes up next to her husband in her suburban home, and without conscious purpose, walks out the front door to begin a journey that ultimately leads to profound transfiguration.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe travels first by car and then train to Rosslare, from where she takes a ferry to Fishguard in Wales. Along the way, she finds herself in service stations, shopping centres, train stations, ferry terminals; recalling her youth, earlier fantasies of suicide and reminiscing about those people who have come in and out of her life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinally, 48 hours later, alone and isolated in a cottage in Wales, in a strange and eerie landscape, the woman reaches her nadir.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eBreakdown \u003c\/span\u003eis a novel about the rage and reckoning of a middle aged, educated woman who has lived her life in accordance with the expectations of society.","brand":"Weidenfeld \u0026 Nicolson","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42824328314960,"sku":"9781474618533B","price":7.49,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781474618533-l.jpg?v=1785896098","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/en-ca\/products\/breakdown-9781474618533b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}