In late 2018, Michael Harding was in a hotel room in Blanchardstown experiencing severe pains in his chest. He eventually phoned an ambulance and was admitted to hospital, suffering from an acute heart attack. Here, in Chest Pain, he looks at the months before the heart attack when he kept the signs of failing health from his beloved and instead retreated into solitude -- and with his own inimitable style and humour takes us with him through the months after a stent had been inserted in his heart, where he travels the roads of Donegal in a camper van in a journey back to the beloved, and to himself.
Chest Pain is a thought-provoking, spell-binding memoir about togetherness and what it means to be alive.
Michael Harding is an author and playwright. His creative chronicle of ordinary life in the Irish midlands is published as a weekly column in The Irish Times. He has written numerous plays for the Abbey Theatre, including Una Pooka, Misogynist, and Sour Grapes, and has published three novels: Priest, The Trouble with Sarah Gullion, and Bird in the Snow as well as three bestselling memoirs, Staring at Lakes - which won three BGE Irish Book awards - Hanging with the Elephant, Talking to Strangers, and the bestselling On Tuesdays I'm a Buddhist.
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'A compelling memoir. Absorbing and graced with a deceptive lightness of touch ... Harding writes like an angel' - Sunday Times
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