{"product_id":"openhearted-9780241993521","title":"Openhearted","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR TWO IRISH BOOK AWARDS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e''Something they don''t tell you about getting older is that you fall. Oh, you hear about it in passing, of course, She had a fall, poor thing. Falling is not something you ever think about as a younger woman. You think about falling in love . . .''\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt 20 Londoner Ann Ingle fell madly in love with an Irish fellow she met on holiday in Cornwall. At the church to arrange their shotgun wedding she discovered that he hadn''t even told her his real name.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSixty-odd years later Ann looks back on that first glorious fall and in a series of essays considers what she has learned from the life that followed - bringing eight children into the world, their father''s years of mental illness and tragic death at 40, being a cash-strapped single mother in 1980s Dublin, coming into her own in her middle years - going to college, working and writing, and continuing to evolve and learn into her ninth decade, even as she accepts th\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA beautiful book * Irish Times *\u003cbr\u003eLifted my spirits beyond description! So loving and non-judgemental and Ann Ingle's enjoyment of life is beautiful to behold. Genuinely inspirational. I LOVE ANN INGLE -- Marian Keyes\u003cbr\u003eI loved it, really loved it . . . a very uplifting, hopeful book . . . brilliant -- Ray D'Arcy\u003cbr\u003eWhat a beautiful openhearted, at times broken-hearted memoir . . . honest, funny, searingly direct, a wonderful voice . . . remarkable -- Joe Duffy\u003cbr\u003eHeart-breaking yet funny, and jaw-droppingly honest . . . by some distance, the most courageous, most poignant, most life-affirming memoir I've read in the last twenty years and more -- Paul Howard\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733436608855,"sku":"9780241993521","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780241993521.jpg?v=1720000072","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/openhearted-9780241993521","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}