{"product_id":"openhearted-eighty-years-of-love-loss-laughter-and-letting-go","title":"Openhearted: Eighty Years of Love, Loss, Laughter and Letting Go","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eOpenhearted is a memoir by Ann Ingle that was shortlisted for two Irish Book Awards 2021. It is a candid and inspiring story about living life with curiosity and delight, even as one ages. The memoir has received critical acclaim, with reviewers calling it courageous, poignant, and life-affirming. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n                                                            \u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\n                              \u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 304 pages\u003cbr\u003e\n                              \u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 23 September 2021\u003cbr\u003e\n                              \u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Penguin Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\n                          \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e SHORTLISTED FOR TWO IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2021     Something they don t tell you about getting older is that you fall. Oh,you hear about it in passing,of course,She had a fall,poor thing. Falling is not something you ever think about as a younger woman. You think about falling in 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 on that first glorious fall and in a series of essays 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.    ___________________     By some distance the most courageous, most poignant, most life-affirming memoir I ve read in the last twenty years and more   Paul Howard    Genuinely inspirational. I LOVE ANN INGLE   Marian Keyes    What a beautiful openhearted, at times broken-hearted memoir ... honest, funny, searingly direct, a wonderful voice ... remarkable   Joe Duffy    Really beautiful. Searingly honest,astonishingly frank and very, very funny   Maia Dunphy    SHORTLISTED FOR TWO IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2021     Something they don t tell you about getting older is that you fall. Oh, you hear about it in passing, of course, She had a fall, poor thing. Falling is not something you ever think about as a younger woman. You think about falling in 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 on that first glorious fall and in a series of essays 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.    ___________________     By some distance the most courageous, most poignant, most life-affirming memoir I ve read in the last twenty years and more   Paul Howard    Genuinely inspirational. I LOVE ANN INGLE   Marian Keyes    What a beautiful openhearted, at times broken-hearted memoir ... honest, funny, searingly direct, a wonderful voice ... remarkable   Joe Duffy    Really beautiful. Searingly honest,astonishingly frank and very, very funny   Maia Dunphy    SHORTLISTED FOR TWO IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2021     Something they don t tell you about getting older is that you fall. Oh, you hear about it in passing, of course, She had a fall, poor thing. Falling is not something you ever think about as a younger woman. You think about falling in 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 on that first glorious fall and in a series of essays 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.    ___________________     By some distance the most courageous, most poignant, most life-affirming memoir I ve read in the last twenty years and more   Paul Howard    Genuinely inspirational. I LOVE ANN INGLE   Marian Keyes    What a beautiful openhearted, at times broken-hearted memoir ... honest, funny, searingly direct, a wonderful voice ... remarkable   Joe Duffy    Really beautiful. Searingly honest,astonishingly frank and very, very funny   Maia Dunphy   \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSixty-odd years later, Ann looks back on that first glorious fall and in a series of essays 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCandid 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy some distance, the most courageous, most poignant, most life-affirming memoir I've read in the last twenty years and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul Howard\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eGenuinely inspirational. 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