Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way
The new novel about family history, love and second chances from the Booker Prize longlisted author
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- USD 12.99
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- USD 12.99
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**THE INSTANT IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER** SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAR** WINNER OF AUTHOR OF THE YEAR AT THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS**
**ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED NOVELS OF 2025 AS SELECTED BY THE OBSERVER, THE IRISH TIMES, JOURNAL.IE, RTE GUIDE AND SUNDAY TIMES IRELAND**
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
'A superb, multi-generational story told in stunning, poetic prose. Elaine Feeney is one of Irish literature's most gifted and persuasive storytellers.' SINÉAD GLEESON
'I believe [this] is the best book of 2025' Oliver Callan, RTE RADIO
'Hugely powerful' DAILY MAIL
'Superb' IRISH TIMES
'An uncanny understanding of the workings of the human heart. I loved this book' LOUISE KENNEDY
'Full of humanity, a story for our times' MARY COSTELLO
Claire O’Connor’s life has been on hold since she broke up with Tom Morton and moved from London back home to the rugged West of Ireland to care for her dying father. But glimpses of her old life are sure to follow when Tom unexpectedly moves nearby. As Claire is thrown 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 – getting lost online, 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 a future for herself.
'Sizzling, electric... charged with humour and anger... I loved it' JENNY MUSTARD
'The pull of home feels as irresistible as it is destabilising, forcing a confrontation with unspeakable truths' OBSERVER
'Clear-eyed and deep-hearted... packs an intellectual and emotional punch' CLAIRE-LOUISE BENNETT
'This book touched my soul' KATRIONA O'SULLIVAN
'Feeney will break your heart with her characters but she will also lovingly put it back together again' EDEL COFFEY
*A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 FOR STYLIST MAGAZINE*
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Feeney (How to Build a Boat) explores an Irish family's trauma in this contemplative outing. On the heels of the sudden death of her mother and the rapid decline of her terminally ill father, Claire O'Connor leaves her longtime English boyfriend, Tom, in London, and returns to her family's isolated farmhouse outside Galway. Her reappearance after a decade coincides with the Covid-19 lockdown, and despite her past assertions that she's "done with this place," Claire, a writer and teacher, throws herself headlong into homemaking after her father's death, egged on by her compulsive watching of tradwife social media reels and accelerated by Tom's decision to rent a house nearby. Alongside the present-day narrative, Feeney unfurls the story of Claire's great-grandmother, who runs guns out of the house for the IRA in 1920, and 11-year-old Claire, who's enlisted there by her father in 1990 to help finalize the sale of a mare to be bred for the English royal family. With arresting imagery and skillful shifts in perspective, Feeney weaves together these narrative threads to gut-wrenching effect, as when Claire's father "seemed to remember the atmosphere" of a horrific event from before he was born, and the novel culminates in an avalanche of savage scenes and revelations. It's a potent drama of a family shaped by a nation in upheaval.
