Breakdown Av Cathy Sweeney

<p>One 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.<br><br>Without thinking much about it, she walks out the front door and never comes back.<br><br>She 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.<br><br>Finally, 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.<br><br><b>From one of Ireland''s most provocative and admired writers, this is a story of rage and reckoning, joy and transformation.</b></p>