Elaine Feeney Let Met Go Mad in My Own Way review, recensie en informatie nieuwe roman van de Ierse schrijfster. Op 29 mei 2025 verschijnt bij Harvill Secker de nieuwe roman van de uit Ierland afkomstige schrijfster Elaine Feeney. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.
Elaine Feeney Let Met Go Mad in My Own Way review en recensie
- “Elaine Feeney is 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 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)
Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way
- Auteur: Elaine Feeney (Ierland)
- Soort boek: Ierse roman
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Harvill Secker
- Verschijnt: 29 mei 2025
- Omvang: 320 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / paperback / ebook
- Prijs: £ 16,99 / £ 8,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van Elaine Feeney
Claire O’Connor’s life has been on hold since she broke up with Tom Morton and moved from cosmopolitan London back home to the rugged West of Ireland to care for her dying father. But snatches of her old life are sure to follow her, when Tom unexpectedly moves nearby for work. As Claire is thrown back 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 – obsessing over the internet, 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 her own future – and whether finding herself means facing herself too.
Elaine Feeney is born in 1979 in Athenry, County Galway, Ireland. She 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.