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    Almost There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman
    Almost There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman
    Almost There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman
    Audiobook7 hours

    Almost There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman

    Written by Nuala O'Faolain

    Narrated by Nuala O'Faolain

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    About this audiobook

    In 1996, a small Irish press approached Nuala O'Faolain to publish a collection of her opinion columns from the Irish Times. She offered to write an introduction to explain the life experience that had shaped this Irish woman's views. Convinced that none but a few diehard fans of the columns would ever see the book, she took the opportunity to interrogate herself as to what she had made of her life.
    But the introduction, the "accidental memoir of a Dublin woman," was discovered, and Are You Somebody? became an international bestseller. It launched a new life for its author at a time when she had long let go of expectations that anything new could dislodge patterns of regret and solitude, well fixed. Suddenly, in midlife, there was the possibility of radical change.
    Almost There begins at that moment when O'Faolain's life began to change. It tells the story of a life in subtle, radical, and unforeseen renewal. It is a tale of good fortune chasing out bad -- of an accidental harvest of happiness. But it is also a provocative examination of one woman's experience of the "crucible of middle age" -- a time of life that faces in two directions, that forges the shape of the years to come, and also clarifies and solidifies one's relationships to friends and lovers (past and present), family and self.
    Intelligent, thoughtful, hilarious, fierce, moving, generous, and full of surprises, Almost There is a crystalline reflection of a singular character, utterly engaged in life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateFeb 1, 2003
    ISBN9780743541251
    Almost There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman

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    • 5/5
      she can tell you nothing and you'll pay attention.
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed this autobiography (read by the author, too!), although I hadn't realized when I picked it up that it is the second part of her memoirs. It would have helped to read the first one before this, as this one seems to assume you know a decent about the author and her family already. Still, it was interesting to hear about her life experiences and about her family members and their adventures.
    • 4/5
      Nicely written memoir, one that made me think about my own life story.
    • 4/5
      A sobering, well written account of one's journalist's struggle in life, through her relationships, work experiences and choice's, good and bad, that she has made - and that has made her.