Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way

Elaine Feeney author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Publishing:14th May '26

£9.99

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Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way cover

THE INSTANT IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER
SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAR

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

‘Full of humanity, a story for our times’ MARY COSTELLO
‘I loved this book’ LOUISE KENNEDY
‘Superb’ IRISH TIMES

Claire O’Connor’s life has been on hold since she broke up with Tom Morton and moved back home to the rugged West of Ireland to care for her dying father. She spends her days getting lost online, going to work and minding her own business. But Claire is thrown back into a love she thought she’d left behind when Tom unexpectedly moves nearby, stirring up haunting memories trapped within the walls of the old family house. As the secrets of the past are revealed, Claire must confront whether she can escape her history to make a future for herself.

'This book touched my soul' KATRIONA O'SULLIVAN

'I believe this is the best book of the year' Oliver Callan, RTE RADIO

'Hugely powerful' DAILY MAIL

'One of Irish literature's most gifted and persuasive storytellers' SINÉAD GLEESON

'Sizzling, electric... charged with humour and anger... I loved it' JENNY MUSTARD

'Clear-eyed and deep-hearted... packs an intellectual and emotional punch' CLAIRE-LOUISE BENNETT

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
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 wife' phenomenon -- Observer

ISBN: 9781529967463

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 35mm

Weight: 500g

320 pages