Breaking Point

It’s a knockout, you’re going to love it. – Ryan Tubridy * RTE *Breaking Point has all the hallmarks of a future bestseller … it has the pace, setting and glamour of a Hollywood thriller. – Jane Casey * Irish Times *This very human story examines the heavy burden on working mothers, spinning the innumerable plates of parenting and career. Are working women set up to lose, to fail their children, and to fail themselves? Shocking, thought-provoking, and necessary, Breaking Point will change hearts and minds. – Frances Macken, author of You Have to Make Your Own Fun Around HereSkilfully explores what it means to be a woman trying to juggle it all - and the consequences when tragedy strikes. You won’t be able to put this down. * Image Magazine *It grips from get go. * The Gloss *Expect this book to be a mainstay of bookclubs in 2022. * The Irish Sunday Business Post *You won’t be able to put this one down. * Stellar Magazine *This is not only a gripping page-turner and gripping courtroom drama, it also has a lot to say about the expectations and judgement put on women when they become mothers. Prepare to feel devastated and enraged all at once. * Crime Monthly *A heart-in-mouth type of novel that will have you wonder how you’d react if in similar circumstances. * Belfast Telegraph *The book promises to be one of the most talked-about of the year. * New European, Faces to Watch for 2022 *Hugely compelling - I devoured it in a day … a compulsive debut that keeps you turning its pages. * Sunday Business Post *This debut novel from Edel Coffey craftily spins out that nightmare scenario of a clock you can’t turn back, a situation you can’t fix and how quickly envy turns to universal hate. * Sunday Life Magazine *This chilling, emotional thriller explores the burdens placed on working mothers in the wake of a high-flying doctor’s tragic mistake. – Joanne Owen * LoveReading.co.uk *

Edel Coffey is an Irish journalist and broadcaster. She has worked as a presenter and reporter with RTE Radio, editor of the Irish Independent Weekend Magazine and books editor of the Irish Independent. She is a regular contributor to The Irish Times and RTE Radio One. Her debut novel, Breaking Point, was a No.1 Irish bestseller, was shortlisted for Best Debut and won Best Crime Novel of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards. Her second novel, In Her Place, was also a No.1 Irish bestseller and was shortlisted for the RTE Radio 1 Listeners’ Choice Award. In Glass Houses is her third novel. Coffey lives in Galway with her husband and children.

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