{"id":21574,"date":"2022-09-23T03:02:08","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T02:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/event\/breaking-point-edel-coffey-in-conversation-with-rachael-english-kildare-readers-festival\/"},"modified":"2022-09-23T03:02:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T02:02:08","slug":"breaking-point-edel-coffey-in-conversation-with-rachael-english-kildare-readers-festival","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/breaking-point-edel-coffey-in-conversation-with-rachael-english-kildare-readers-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Point: Edel Coffey in Conversation with Rachael English &#8211; Kildare Readers Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kildare Library &amp; Arts Services has announced that Kildare Readers Festival returns to venues across the County from Monday, 3rd October to Sunday, 9th October 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Join author and journalist Edel Coffey, in conversation with Rachael English, for a discussion on\u00a0her debut novel\u00a0Breaking Point.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Published to rave reviews earlier this year,\u00a0Breaking Point\u00a0is a raw and compelling examination of the societal pressures put on women to juggle careers and personal lives and to \u2018have it all\u2019. The novel charts the story of Susannah &#8211; a highly successful paediatrician, parenting self-help author and mother-of-two &#8211; and the aftermath of what happens when while driving her daughter to nursery one morning a change in her routine leads to a devastating mistake.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Edel Coffey\u00a0is an Irish journalist and broadcaster. She began work as an arts journalist and editor with the\u00a0Sunday Tribune.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><em><span><span><span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><span><span><span><span>She has since worked as a presenter and reporter with\u00a0RT\u00c9\u00a0radio, editor of the\u00a0Irish Independent Weekend Magazine, and as Books Editor of the\u00a0Irish Independent. She is a columnist with the\u00a0Irish Examiner\u00a0and\u00a0The Sunday Business Post.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Breaking Point\u00a0is her debut novel and was a number one bestseller in Ireland. She lives in Galway with her husband and children.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Rachael English\u00a0is the author of six novels, including the recent number one bestseller,\u00a0The Letter Home.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><em><span><span><span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><span><span><span><span>Her books have been published in Britain, the United States and in a number of European languages.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Venue: Maynooth Library\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21575,"template":"","class_list":["post-21574","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Breaking Point: Edel Coffey in Conversation with Rachael English - Kildare Readers Festival - Creative Ireland Programme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kildare Library &amp; Arts Services has announced that Kildare Readers Festival returns to venues across the County from Monday, 3rd October to Sunday, 9th October 2022.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/breaking-point-edel-coffey-in-conversation-with-rachael-english-kildare-readers-festival\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Breaking Point: Edel Coffey in Conversation with Rachael English - Kildare Readers Festival - Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kildare Library &amp; Arts Services has announced that Kildare Readers Festival returns to venues across the County from Monday, 3rd October to Sunday, 9th October 2022.\u00a0 Join author and journalist Edel Coffey, in conversation with Rachael English, for a discussion on\u00a0her debut novel\u00a0Breaking Point. 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