Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way

One of the finest writers of her generation ... Feeney will break your heart with her characters but she will also lovingly put it back together again.

Edel Coffey

Conveyed with lyricism and longing.

Observer, *Books to Look Out For 2025*

One of Irish literature's most gifted and persuasive storytellers.

Sinéad Gleeson

A startling and original novel loaded with insight on the long reach of traumas both personal and political.

Sarah Gilmartin

This is a clear-eyed and deep-hearted calibration of accumulating trauma, which Feeney skillfully conveys the scope and heft of while considering what it might take to halt it in its devastating tracks. She has the novelist's instinct of wanting to get to the bottom of painful situations, yet she is also a first-class poet who knows that painful situations are often fathomless and ineffable. What we get then is a driven, tenacious, and probing narrative, made up of deeply expressive sentences that bristle and ache. Curious, sensitive, and unfeignedly visceral, Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way packs an intellectual and emotional punch as it asks that most difficult of questions – What now?

Claire-Louise Bennett

This book touched my soul ... A perfect depiction of the complicated relationships we have with ourselves and our histories.

Katriona O'Sullivan

Astonishing ... A book about how women hold power and space wand how the truths passed down by women from generation to generation create a shadow history that stands as a corrective to received narratives.

Jessica Traynor

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 beautiful digressive trip through modern life, and a far-wider-reaching, wildly ambitious vision of what it means to be Irish and a person right now.

Roisin Kiberd

Feeney's warmth, compassion and bravery on the page... Her writing is so natural...that it seems at times miraculous.

Lisa McInerney

An uncanny understanding of the workings of the human heart. I loved this book.

Louise Kennedy

Hugely powerful ...likely one of the most original you'll read this year

Daily Mail

Feeney’s astute lyricism makes for a marvellously engaging story

Mail on Sunday

A very strong novel and I was gripped by it throughout

Alex Clark, RTE Radio

Expertly balances light and darkness, in a story that grips and engages... Sizzling, electric ... charged with humour and anger, reinvigorating and unexpected ...I loved it so

Jenny Mustard

I absolutely loved this novel - a story of lost love and longing that tears open to reveal a whole history of violence, told with the effortless intelligence and extraordinary compassion.

Rosie Price, author of THE ORANGE ROOM

An ambitious, thoughtful, nicely layered book

Irish Times

An emotionally layered novel about memory, grief and resilience

Image Magazine

Beautifully written ... Devastating, true and timely

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