How do you tell the story of a life in a body, as it goes through sickness, health, motherhood? How do you tell that story when you are not just a woman but a woman in Ireland? In the powerful essays in Constellations, Sinead Gleeson does those very things. Throughout this wide-ranging collection she also turns her restless eye outwards delving into work, art and our very ways of seeing. Join the author as she takes us on a journey that is both uniquely personal and yet universal in its resonance. Reading and conversation with the author moderated by Rachel Syme, with reception to follow. Sinead Gleeson is an Irish Book Award-winning writer, editor and freelance broadcaster. Having edited the work of others, in 2016's The Long Gaze Back and 2017's The Glass Shore, she released her first book Constellations, a collection of personal essays, in 2019. The works of writer, reporter and critic Rachel Syme has apperaed on The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Marie Claire, Elle, The Gentlewoman, Elle UK, The New Republic, GQ, among others.
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