A vital collection of essays soaked in pain and experience
In tandem with Sinéad Gleeson’s personal story, the author tells a wider historical tale of Irish women from the 1960s right up to 2018’s repeal of the Eighth Amendment
Essays: Constellations: Reflections From Life, By Sinéad Gleeson, Picador, €19.55
There is a lot of pain in the 241 pages that comprise this collection of essays. This is not the existential pain of a writer searching for a voice nor the torment of creativity; nothing so prosaic as that.
Irish author, broadcaster and journalist Sinéad Gleeson has been plagued by ill health for most of her life. Hers is the agony of bones ...