LAUNCH: Elaine Feeney | Let Me Go Mad In My Own Way
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We are delighted to present the Dublin launch of Let Me Go Mad In My Own Way by acclaimed Booker Prize-longlisted author Elaine Feeney. Join us at 6.30pm on Thursday 29th of May for an evening of conversation as Elaine discusses her powerful and eagerly awaited new novel. Refreshments will be served, and booking is essential as we’ll be hosting this in our upstairs café where space is limited. Please use the form below.
Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way is a story of love and resilience, rich with history and drama, and the legacies of violence and redemption. As the secrets of the past are revealed, Claire must confront whether she can escape her history to make a future for herself – and whether finding yourself means facing yourself too.
PRAISE FOR Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way:
‘Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way sees a woman return home to Ireland to care for her dying father. How she rebuilds her life, and the ways in which the past returns to haunt her, are conveyed with lyricism and longing.’
– Observer, *Books to Look Out For 2025*
‘A superb, multi-generational story told in stunning, poetic prose. Elaine Feeney is one of Irish literature’s most gifted and persuasive storytellers.’
– Sinéad Gleeson
‘I simply love Elaine Feeney’s writing. Let Me Go Mad In My Own Way is proof, if any was needed, that she is one of the finest writers of her generation. This book moves effortlessly through humour, tragedy and devastation with great formal inventiveness. It is a brilliant exploration of how violence, oppression and hatred, both personal and political, can warp and overshadow a life. This is a hugely ambitious novel wrought with Feeney’s trademark lyricism and emotional intelligence… Feeney will break your heart with her characters but she will also lovingly put it back together again.
– Edel Coffey
‘Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way is a startling and original novel loaded with insight on the long reach of traumas both personal and political.’
– Sarah Gilmartin
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Elaine Feeney is an acclaimed novelist and poet from the west of Ireland. Her debut novel, As You Were, was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Irish Novel of the Year Award, and won the Kate O’Brien Award, the McKitterick Prize and the Dalkey Festival Emerging Writer Award. How to Build a Boat was also shortlisted for Irish Novel of the Year, longlisted for the Booker Prize, and was a New Yorker Best Book of the Year. Feeney has published the poetry collections Where’s Katie?, The Radio Was Gospel, Rise and All the Good Things You Deserve, and lectures at the University of Galway.
