Notes to Self by Emilie Pine

Notes to Self by Emilie PineIn 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

and Newark is in the grip of a terrifying epidemic

and longings

When Korede's dinner is interrupted one night by a distress call from her sister

and it’s the queen

tragedy leaves Delia alone in the world

chiefly about French artists

To the people on the island

bearing witness to nature's power to amaze

the ghosts of Dublin entwine around them

With nothing left and little time

from when he was a young boy growing up in Cork City to travelling around Ireland making his popular television show

there are so many different ways that the Japanese emphasise the importance of community and helping others