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Notes to Self

Emilie Pine

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English
Penguin Books Ltd
18 June 2019
Radically honest and fiercely intelligent, the word-of-mouth #1 bestseller on modern womanhood and coming-of-age

'I am afraid of being the disruptive woman. And of not being disruptive enough. I am afraid. But I am doing it anyway.'

In this dazzling debut, Emilie Pine speaks powerfully from her painful personal experience - on the emotional labour of caring for her alcoholic father, on the unspeakable grief of miscarriage and infertility, on the social taboos around menstrual blood and female pain, on the ways young women use their own bodies as a weapon against themselves. Courageous, humane and uncompromising, devastatingly poignant and yet never self-pitying, these pieces investigate and challenge society's assumptions around pain, strength, resilience and identity, ultimately embracing joy and hope in the business of living.

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Imprint:   Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 196mm,  Width: 130mm,  Spine: 18mm
Weight:   160g
ISBN:   9780241986226
ISBN 10:   0241986222
Pages:   224
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Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  ELT Advanced ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Emilie Pine is Professor of Modern Drama at University College Dublin, Ireland. She has published widely as an academic and critic. Her first collection of personal essays Notes to Self won the Butler Literary Award, the Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year Award, and Book of the Year 2018 at the Irish Book Awards. Ruth & Pen is her first novel.

Reviews for Notes to Self

This compelling memoir crystallises the human experience and gives words to the feelings you never knew you had. * Sunday Times Style * Wry, shocking, winningly frank... What is most striking about the collection is its universality. [These stories] urgently need to be told. Pine does so with an honesty and vigour that are always uplifting * Guardian * light on its feet and goes in deep * Deborah Levy * an astonishingly fine book * Dublin Review of Books *


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