A collection that shows us ourselves as we truly are ***AN IRISH TIMES 2024 DEBUT WRITER TO
LOOK OUT FOR*** 'A major new talent' I 'So precise and articulate' SUNDAY TIMES Two
teenage girls fixated on each other's bodies enter into a destructive competition a woman's
encounter with her ex forces her to reflect on the women's group that saved her a couple's
future is called into question after the damp expert they hire for their bathroom offers them
free counselling an older man's buried grief emerges during an altercation with a mother
driving a 4×4 and over the course of a bitter winter a waitress lacks the money to fix an
impacted tooth as the cracks begin to show in her precariously balanced life. Free Therapy
takes us into the inner lives of women and men who are versed in the language of therapy
possessed with the self-knowledge needed to change their lives but finding themselves
unwilling to doing so. As her characters try and fail to connect - via sex friendship screens
and work - Rebecca Ivory explores desire in all its forms revealing the ways in which we
posture and present and the softness and insecurities that lie beneath. Perfectly observed
wry and illuminated by moments of sympathy and wisdom Free Therapy shows us ourselves as we
truly are. 'Arresting and inventive' SALLY ROONEY 'Her writing feels so fresh' PANDORA
SYKES
