#ElaineFeeney 'Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way' was an excellent absorbing read, with further depths if the reader is interested, something I discovered after I searched for the origin of the title.
"Don’t tell me how to feel or how to react, let me experience my madness as I must.”
#Sophocles
Book cover of Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way by Irish author Elaine Feeney features a black mare and a background of rolling green hills
Book cover of the novella Shame by Annie Ernaux
"This can be said about shame: those who experience it feel that anything can happen to them, that the shame will never cease and that it will only be followed by more shame."
- #AnnieErnaux, Shame
Epigram written in the front of the novel
Let Me Go Mad In My Own Way by #ElaineFeeney
This was a compelling easy read but with depths that can easily pass you by on first reading. I'm still thinking about the characters and dynamics in this book, long after reading. Finally put my thoughts together here:
#ElaineFeeney
Let Me Go Mad In My Own Way
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Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way by #ElaineFeeney
a young Irish woman pushes back against ingrained roles, behaviours, excavating the source of repressed feelings.
A thought provoking read of past acting on present, needing change.
Loved it!
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Book cover of Elaine Feeney's novel Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way featuring the blue black shadow of a horse against a green background of rolling hills. A quote by Louise Kennedy reads 'An uncanny understanding of the workings of the human heart'
Looking forward to getting into this today, as the Irish novel comes of age and contemporary characters confront the way things were, addressing complicated inner histories.
Let Me Go Mad In My Own Way by #ElaineFeeney
