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Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way

Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way

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  • Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way sees a woman return home to Ireland to care for her dying father. How she rebuilds her life, and the ways in which the past returns to haunt her, are conveyed with lyricism and longing.
    Observer, *Books to Look Out For 2025*

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Elaine Feeney

Elaine Feeney is 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.
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