Openhearted : Eighty Years of Love, Loss, Laughter and Letting Go
by
Ann Ingle
Book Details
Format
Hardback
ISBN-10
1844885712
ISBN-13
9781844885718
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint
Sandycove
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 23rd, 2021
Print length
304 Pages
Weight
418 grams
Dimensions
14.40 x 22.30 x 3.10 cms
Product Classification:
IrelandEngland21st century, c 2000 to c 2100Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050Biography: generalBiography and non-fiction proseProse: non-fictionBiography: generalCoping with / advice about ageingCoping with old ageCoping with / advice about death and bereavementCoping with death & bereavementFamily & relationshipsRelationships and families: advice, topics and issuesIntergenerational relationshipsIntergenerational relationships: advice, topics and issuesSelf-help & personal developmentSelf-help, personal development and practical advice
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SHORTLISTED FOR TWO IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2021
''Something they don''t tell you about getting older is that you fall. Oh, you hear about it in passing, of course, "She had a fall, poor thing". Falling is not something you ever think about as a younger woman. You think about falling in love . . .''
At 20 Londoner Ann Ingle fell madly in love with an Irish fellow she met on holiday in Cornwall. At the church to arrange their shotgun wedding she discovered that he hadn''t even told her his real name.
Sixty-odd years later Ann looks back on that first glorious fall and in a series of essays considers what she has learned from the life that followed - bringing eight children into the world, their father''s years of mental illness and tragic death at 40, being a cash-strapped single mother in 1980s Dublin, coming into her own in her middle years - going to college, working and writing, and continuing to evolve and learn into her ninth decade, even as she accepts the realities of being ''old''.
Candid about everything that matters - love, sex, heartbreak, money, class, religion, mental health, rearing children (and letting them go), reading and writing, ageing - Openhearted is a compelling story about living life in a spirit of curiosity and delight and with a willingness to look for good in others.
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''By some distance the most courageous, most poignant, most life-affirming memoir I''ve read in the last twenty years and more'' Paul Howard
''Genuinely inspirational. I LOVE ANN INGLE'' Marian Keyes
''What a beautiful openhearted, at times broken-hearted memoir ... honest, funny, searingly direct, a wonderful voice ... remarkable'' Joe Duffy
''Really beautiful. Searingly honest, astonishingly frank and very, very funny'' Maia Dunphy
''Something they don''t tell you about getting older is that you fall. Oh, you hear about it in passing, of course, "She had a fall, poor thing". Falling is not something you ever think about as a younger woman. You think about falling in love . . .''
At 20 Londoner Ann Ingle fell madly in love with an Irish fellow she met on holiday in Cornwall. At the church to arrange their shotgun wedding she discovered that he hadn''t even told her his real name.
Sixty-odd years later Ann looks back on that first glorious fall and in a series of essays considers what she has learned from the life that followed - bringing eight children into the world, their father''s years of mental illness and tragic death at 40, being a cash-strapped single mother in 1980s Dublin, coming into her own in her middle years - going to college, working and writing, and continuing to evolve and learn into her ninth decade, even as she accepts the realities of being ''old''.
Candid about everything that matters - love, sex, heartbreak, money, class, religion, mental health, rearing children (and letting them go), reading and writing, ageing - Openhearted is a compelling story about living life in a spirit of curiosity and delight and with a willingness to look for good in others.
___________________
''By some distance the most courageous, most poignant, most life-affirming memoir I''ve read in the last twenty years and more'' Paul Howard
''Genuinely inspirational. I LOVE ANN INGLE'' Marian Keyes
''What a beautiful openhearted, at times broken-hearted memoir ... honest, funny, searingly direct, a wonderful voice ... remarkable'' Joe Duffy
''Really beautiful. Searingly honest, astonishingly frank and very, very funny'' Maia Dunphy
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