Synopsis
Our Irish Book of the Month for June
'I am afraid of being the disruptive woman. And of not being disruptive enough. I am afraid. But I am doing it anyway.'
In this dazzling debut, Emilie Pine speaks to the business of living as a woman in the 21st century - its extraordinary pain and its extraordinary joy. Courageous, humane and uncompromising, she writes with radical honesty on birth and death, on the grief of infertility, on caring for her alcoholic father, on taboos around female bodies and female pain, on sexual violence and violence against the self. Devastatingly poignant and profoundly wise - and joyful against the odds - Notes to Self offers a portrait not just of its author but of a whole generation.
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- ISBN: 9780241986226
- Number of pages: 224
- Weight: 160g
- Dimensions: 196 x 130 x 18 mm
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Heartbreaking, but also Hopeful
An absolutely brilliant collection of essays where no subject is too painful for examination: female pain, infertility, alcoholism, families, and violence ... READ MORE
"I am afraid. But I am doing it anyway.”
Trigger warning: this book discusses alcoholism, infertility and sexual violence.
“I am afraid of being the disruptive woman. And of not being disruptive ... READ MORE
