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THE EXTRAORDINARY #1 BESTSELLER <BR><BR>'Fiercely feminist, fascinating. I have recommended this to several people. And I'm doing the same here' Sunday Times <BR><BR>'Do not read this book in public: it will make you cry' Anne Enright<BR><BR>'I am afraid of being the disruptive woman. And of not being disruptive enough. I am afraid. But I am doing it anyway.'<BR><BR>In this dazzling debut, Emilie Pine speaks to the business of living as a woman in the 21st century - its extraordinary pain and its extraordinary joy. Courageous, humane and uncompromising, she writes with radical honesty on birth and death, on the grief of infertility, on caring for her alcoholic father, on taboos around female bodies and female pain, on sexual violence and violence against the self. Devastatingly poignant and profoundly wise - and joyful against the odds - Notes to Self offers a portrait not just of its author but of a whole generation.<BR><BR>'Unsparing, formidable, raw. The kind of book you want to give everyone' Irish Times<BR><BR>'Complex, accessible, thoughtful... You will love these essays' Pandora Sykes, The High Low<BR><BR>'Every line pulses with the pain and joy and complexity of an extraordinary life' Mark O'Connell<BR><BR>RUTH & PEN, EMILIE PINE'S FIRST NOVEL, IS OUT ON THE 5TH OF MAY 2022

Der Debütroman der internationalen Bestsellerautorin von 'Botschaften an mich selbst'Dublin, der 7. Oktober 2019: Ein Tag, eine Stadt, zwei Frauen. Sie kennen sich nicht, aber beide sind mit denselben Fragen konfrontiert: Wo ist mein Platz in der Welt, und was tue ich, wenn meine Wünsche nicht in Erfüllung gehen? Ein tief berührender und strahlend intelligenter Roman über die Grenzen von Trauer und Liebe und über den zarten Mut, den wir im Alltag brauchen. Ruth arbeitet als Therapeutin und steckt in einer Ehekrise. Ihr Mann Aidan ist auf einer Konferenz in London, und sie ist nicht sicher, ob er zurück nach Hause kommen wird. Die beiden sind ungewollt kinderlos und haben schon mehrere künstliche Befruchtungen hinter sich, doch Ruth weiß an diesem Morgen: Sie will nicht weitermachen. Gleichzeitig wappnet sich die sechzehnjährige Pen für diesen Tag. Heute wird sie nicht in die Schule gehen, sondern zur Klima-Demo; gemeinsam mit ihrer besten Freundin Alice, in die sie heimlich verknallt ist. Pen hat sich fest vorgenommen, es ihr heute zu sagen, inmitten der beängstigenden Menschenmenge.

The brilliant debut novel from Emilie Pine, author of the international bestseller Notes to Self<BR><BR>Dublin, 7 October 2019<BR><BR>One day, one city, two women: Ruth and Pen. Neither knows the other, but both are asking the same questions: how to be with others and how, when the world won't make space for you, to be with yourself?<BR><BR>Ruth's marriage to Aidan is in crisis. Today she needs to make a choice - to stay or not to stay, to take the risk of reaching out, or to pull up the drawbridge. For teenage Pen, today is the day the words will flow, and she will speak her truth to Alice, to ask for what she so desperately wants.<BR><BR>Deeply involving, poignant and radiantly intelligent, it is a portrait of the limits of grief and love, of how we navigate our inner and outer landscapes, and the tender courage demanded by the simple, daily quest of living.<BR><BR>'Emilie Pine is one of the most important new voices in Irish Literature. Everything she writes is imbued with wisdom' David Park<BR><BR>'Emilie Pine's debut novel is ambitious, poignant and playful, with a feminist nod to Joyce . . . it is as surprising and playful as it is ambitious and relevant' Irish Independent<BR><BR>'This is an exciting, warm and engaging debut that signals, one hopes, even greater things to come' The Business Post<BR><BR>WINNER OF THE KATE O'BRIEN AWARD