Emilie Pine

The brilliant debut novel from Emilie Pine, author of the international bestseller Notes to SelfDublin, 7 October 2019One day, one city, two women: Ruth and Pen. Neither knows the other, but both are asking the same questions: how to be with others and how, when the world wont make space for you, to be with yourself?Ruths marriage to Aidan is in crisis. Today she needs to make a choice - to stay or not to stay, to take the risk of reaching out, or to pull up the drawbridge. For teenage Pen, today is the day the words will flow, and she will speak her truth to Alice, to ask for what she so desperately wants.Deeply involving, poignant and radiantly intelligent, it is a portrait of the limits of grief and love, of how we navigate our inner and outer landscapes, and the tender courage demanded by the simple, daily quest of living.Emilie Pine is one of the most important new voices in Irish Literature. Everything she writes is imbued with wisdom David ParkEmilie Pines debut novel is ambitious, poignant and playful, with a feminist nod to Joyce . . . it is as surprising and playful as it is ambitious and relevant Irish IndependentThis is an exciting, warm and engaging debut that

The extraordinary #1 bestseller - a word-of-mouth literary phenomenon 'Do not read this book in public: it will make you cry' Anne Enright 'Every line pulses with the pain and joy and complexity of an extraordinary life' Mark O'Connell 'I am afraid of being the disruptive woman. And of not being disruptive enough. I am afraid. But I am doing it anyway.' In this dazzling debut, Emilie Pine speaks to the business of living as a woman in the 21st century - its extraordinary pain and its extraordinary joy. Courageous, humane and uncompromising, she writes with radical honesty on birth and death, on the grief of infertility, on caring for her alcoholic father, on taboos around female bodies and female pain, on sexual violence and violence against the self. Devastatingly poignant and profoundly wise - and joyful against the odds - Notes to Self offers a portrait not just of its author but of a whole generation.

The brilliant debut novel from Emilie Pine, author of the international bestseller NOTES TO SELFDublin, 7 October 2019One day, one city, two women: Ruth and Pen. Neither known to the other, but both asking themselves the same questions: how to be with others and how, when the world doesn't seem willing to make space for them, to be with themselves?Ruth's marriage to Aidan is in crisis. Today she needs to make a choice - to stay or not to stay, to take the risk of reaching out, or to pull up the drawbridge.For teenage Pen, today is the day the words will flow, and she will speak her truth to Alice, to ask for what she so desperately wants.Deeply involving, poignant and radiantly intelligent, it is a portrait of the limits of grief and love, of how we navigate our inner and outer landscapes, and the tender courage demanded by the simple, daily quest of living.

The brilliant debut novel from Emilie Pine, author of the international bestseller NOTES TO SELFDublin, 7 October 2019One day, one city, two women: Ruth and Pen. Neither knows the other, but both are asking the same questions: how to be with others and how, when the world wont make space for you, to be with yourself?Ruths marriage to Aidan is in crisis. Today she needs to make a choice - to stay or not to stay, to take the risk of reaching out, or to pull up the drawbridge.For teenage Pen, today is the day the words will flow, and she will speak her truth to Alice, to ask for what she so desperately wants.RUTH & PEN is the fictional debut from Emilie Pine, author of the international bestseller NOTES TO SELF. Deeply involving, poignant and radiantly intelligent, it is a portrait of the limits of grief and love, of how we navigate our inner and outer landscapes, and the tender courage demanded by the simple, daily quest of living.

EnTodo lo que no puedo decir, Emilie Pine nos trae seisrelatos autobiográficos que quieren romper el más antiguo de los pactos de silencio: el cuerpo de las mujeres como fuente de placer y de dolor.«

Galardonada con el Kate OBrien Award Ruth y Pen es el debut novelístico de Emilie Pine, autora de Todo lo que no puedo decir. Una obra luminosa, inteligente y de una delicadeza conmovedora, que retrata los limites del dolor y del amor, de como navegamos por aguas conocidas y desconocidas y del valor que exige encontrar la fuerza para seguiradelante.Una exploracion desgarradora y cruda del valor necesario para encontrar tu lugar en el mundo.The iDublin, 7 de octubre del 2019. Un dia, una ciudad, dos mujeres: Ruth y Pen. No se conocen, pero ambas se hacen las mismas preguntas: ¿Como habitar el mundo en completa sintonia con los demas y, a la vez, con uno mismo? ¿Como encajar y hacernos un hueco cuando el destino pretende excluirnos?El matrimonio de Ruth con Aidan pende de un hilo, y hoy ella debe tomar una decision: quedarse o partir para siempre, arriesgarse y tender puentes o cortar por lo sano. Para Pen, una adolescente de diecisiete años, hoy es el dia en que las palabras fluiran, le contara su verdad a Alice y le preguntara lo que tan desesperadamente desea saber.La critica ha dicho: Emilie Pine es una de las voces mas importantes de la nueva literatura irlandesa. Todo lo que escribe esta impregnado de sabiduria. David ParkEmilie Pine escribe sobre las grandes y las pequeñas cosas: la amistad, el amor, la fertilidad, el dolor; levantarse, ducharse, coger el autobus. Ya lo hizo en su sorprendente coleccion de ensayos Todo lo que no puedo decir, y lo vuelve a hacer en su igualmente sorprendente novela debut Ruth y Pen. Chloe Ashby, The SpectatorImpresionante. Pine explora con gran agudeza y ternura la reparadora y amplia naturaleza del amor. Un libro inteligente y agradable.Daily MailUn libro sobre aquellas cosas que la gente duda de comentar en publico, como el aborto natural, los problemas maritales, la sexualidad, la salud mental y el autismo. Cristin Leach, RTEPine se desmarca de los cliches que acompañan la representacion de los personajes autistas en la literatura y el cine. Hephzibah Anderson, The GuardianPine hace que sus capitulos sean energicos, escribiendo con una afable curiosidad que hace recordar a Ali Smith. La sopesada pero tierna yuxtaposicion que hace Pine de la vida de las mujeres no dibuja paralelismos demasiado nitidos, sino que demuestra que una necesita a la otra: la joven necesita a la mayor, la optimista a la pesimista, la introvertida a la extrovertida. Y nuestros opuestos pueden ayudarnos a encontrar la claridad.The iPine fortalece su reputacion como una de las escritoras mas empaticas del pais.The Irish ExaminerCruda y emotiva. La habilidad de Pine para introducirse en la cabeza de dos personajes tan diferentes es una clara señal de promesa literaria.The Sunday Times (Irlanda)

Galardonada con el Kate O’Brien Award Ruth y Pen es el debut novelístico de Emilie Pine, autora de Todo lo que no puedo decir. Una obra luminosa, inteligente y de una delicadeza conmovedora, que retr

Radically honest and fiercely intelligent, the word-of-mouth #1 bestseller on modern womanhood and coming-of-age.'I am afraid of being the disruptive woman. And of not being disruptive enough. I am afraid. But I am doing it anyway.'In this dazzling debut, Emilie Pine speaks powerfully from her painful personal experience - on the emotional labour of caring for her alcoholic father, on the unspeakable grief of miscarriage and infertility, on the social taboos around menstrual blood and female pain, on the ways young women use their own bodies as a weapon against themselves. Courageous, humane and uncompromising, devastatingly poignant and yet never self-pitying, these pieces investigate and challenge society's assumptions around pain, strength, resilience and identity, ultimately embracing joy and hope in the business of living.

En Todo lo que no puedo decir, Emilie Pine nos trae seis relatos autobiográficos que quieren romper el más antiguo de los pactos de silencio: el cuerpo de las mujeres como fuente de placer y de dolor

'No llegiu aquest llibre en públic: us farà plorar', Anne EnrightTot el que no puc dir és un recull d'assajos poderosos i brillants sobre què vol dir i què suposa ser una dona. A través dels textos,