Overview

A refreshingly frank, engaging and uplifting memoir of resilience, hope and love At 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. Sixty-odd years later Ann looks back and 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 the realities of being 'old'. Candid about everything that matters - love, sex, heartbreak, money, class, religion, mental health, rearing children (and letting them go), reading and writing, ageing - Openhearted is a compelling story about living life in a spirit of curiosity and delight and with a willingness to look for good in others.

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Author:   Ann Ingle
Publisher:   Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:   Penguin Books Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.214kg
ISBN:  

9780241993521

ISBN 10:   0241993520
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   03 March 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order  
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A beautiful book * Irish Times * Lifted 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 I loved it, really loved it . . . a very uplifting, hopeful book . . . brilliant -- Ray D'Arcy What a beautiful openhearted, at times broken-hearted memoir . . . honest, funny, searingly direct, a wonderful voice . . . remarkable -- Joe Duffy Heart-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 Incredibly poignant and so compelling, honest, warm and unique - I love this! -- Nina Stibbe Profoundly honest . . . I relish its kindness, its humour and its courage -- Frank McGuinness A breathtakingly honest account of marriage, motherhood and widowhood . . . extremely moving and hugely inspiring -- Kathleen Mac Mahon Those who read openhearted will experience the warm glow of Ann Ingle's company - you are lucky -- Niall Breslin Really beautiful. Searingly honest, astonishingly frank and very, very funny -- Maia Dunphy Wise and funny and thoughtful -- Rosita Boland Openhearted . . . is a reminder of how much times have changed and this should appeal to all readers, of every vintage, young and old * Irish Independent * Extraordinary . . . a story of survival in the face of extraordinary hardship, but also a love story - and one that betrays not an ounce of mawkishness or self-pity * The Gloss *

Author Information

Originally from London, Ann Ingle has lived in Dublin since the 1960s and is a mother of eight. In 2018, she co-wrote Driven, the memoir of motorsport legend Rosemary Smith, which was shortlisted for an Irish Book Award. Her first memoir, Openhearted, was shortlisted in two categories at the Irish Book Awards 2021

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