{"product_id":"breakdown-9781474618526b","title":"Breakdown","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e'Mothers are not supposed to go on road trips.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom one of Ireland's most provocative and admired writers, this is a story of rage and reckoning, joy and transformation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWithout thinking much about it, she walks out the front door and never comes back.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e'Sweeney has managed to capture the unique interiority of a middle-aged, middle-class family woman who is hellbent on blowing her life up. Sweeney has the swagger and elan of a much more seasoned writer' \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eIrish Independent\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Literary in style but as propulsive as a thriller, you won't be able to put this down. A fascinating study of a woman who has sacrificed her dreams' \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Gloss\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Weidenfeld \u0026 Nicolson","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42822009192528,"sku":"9781474618526B","price":7.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781474618526-l.jpg?v=1785886110","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/fr\/products\/breakdown-9781474618526b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}