{"product_id":"breakdownbooks","title":"Breakdown","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOne winter morning, in contemporary Dublin, a middle-class woman wakes up next to her husband in her suburban home, and without conscious purpose, walks out the front door to begin a journey that ultimately leads to profound transfiguration.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe travels first by car and then train to Rosslare, from where she takes a ferry to Fishguard in Wales. Along the way, she finds herself in service stations, shopping centres, train stations, ferry terminals; recalling her youth, earlier fantasies of suicide and reminiscing about those people who have come in and out of her life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFinally, 48 hours later, alone and isolated in a cottage in Wales, in a strange and eerie landscape, the woman reaches her nadir.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBreakdown\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a novel about the rage and reckoning of a middle aged, educated woman who has lived her life in accordance with the expectations of society.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sweeney, Cathy","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":47145566896352,"sku":"","price":20.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/Screenshot2025-03-16at11.03.58AM.png?v=1742133844","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/breakdownbooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}