EAN: 9781787334694

FREE THERAPY - REBECCA IVORY KARTONIERT (TB)

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

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