Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way

One of Ireland’s shining literary stars…an energetic and vivid voice’ * The Times *
Feeney’s astute lyricism makes for a marvellously engaging story * Mail on Sunday *
A haunting powerful page turner of a novel that will have you in its thrall from first to last page – Gabriel Byrne
Elaine Feeney is one of my favourite Irish writers. She’s so good on class and rural living and the silent burdens that women endure… There is a section here… that’s some of the best writing I have ever read – Douglas Stuart
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 book touched my soul … A perfect depiction of the complicated relationships we have with ourselves and our histories. – Katriona O’Sullivan
Lulls the reader with its lyrical beauty, then slowly devastates with its raw passion and pain … Shocking, intelligent and full of humanity, this is a story for our times. – Mary Costello
A very strong novel and I was gripped by it throughout – Alex Clark * RTE Radio *
Hugely powerful …likely one of the most original you’ll read this year – Daily Mail

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. With her third novel, Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way, Feeney was shortlisted again for Irish Novel of the Year and won the Library Association of Ireland Author 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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