Breaking Out

by Aisling Maguire

Eleanor Leydon is a rebel, and the foster parents she's currently living with (her parents were killed in a car accident) are middle-class Catholics, and she feels stifled. Rejecting their conservative world, she becomes a stonemason and seeks solace in a forbidden love affair which only entraps her further. She gets some help from two women friends. Their travels to France and Greece initiate sexual rivalries and desire, and create a need in Eleanor to find some kind of peace and reconciliation within herself. Maguire's is a powerful vision of the emotional, spiritual, and social impulses that drive our lives.

248 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Born and raised in Dublin and still here, despite stints of living overseas in Australia, the US and Italy. Ph.D in English language and literature from National University Ireland, Dublin. Worked freelance a journalist, book reviewer, feature writer, teacher until becoming a civil servant to report the proceedings of the Irish Parliament. Now retired and happy have freedom to write.