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  • Published: 28 October 2010
  • ISBN: 9780241950166
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368

So What If I'm Broken?



A story of friendship and love, of the families we are born into and the ones we create for ourselves

Once Jane and Alexandra were inseparable - sharing adventures, secrets and big dreams for the future. But when Jane got pregnant at seventeen, they drifted apart.

Seventeen years later, Jane discovers Alexandra has disappeared and she sets about helping Alexandra's broken-hearted husband, Tom, to find his wife.

But in searching for Alexandra Jane is about to confront some big questions about herself. Like, what happened to the high-spirited seventeen-year-old she once was? What will happen if she stops trying to control the world? And does love really mean letting people go?

Two fractured people come together accidentally and in one another they find strength, friendship - and even the beginnings of hope ...

  • Published: 28 October 2010
  • ISBN: 9780241950166
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368

About the author

Anna McPartlin

Anna McPartlin is a novelist and scriptwriter. Her previous incarnation as a stand-up comedian left an indelible mark. She describes herself as a slave to the joke and finds humour and humanity in even the darkest situations. Anna lives in Wicklow with her husband and animals.

Anna McPartlin's experience of losing her parents at a young age has given her a profound understanding of loss, surviving it, and making the very best of life. Before becoming a full-time writer Anna was, amongst other things, a stand-up comedian and a claims adjuster. As well as writing novels, she also writes TV comedy drama. She is in her mid-thirties and lives just outside Dublin with her husband.

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Praise for So What If I'm Broken?

McPartlin radiates an amazing life-affirming humour and positivity ... a superb writer

Sunday Independent

Insightful and irresistible, by turns profound, poignant and laugh-out-loud funny

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McPartlin writes with insight and compassion ... enormously readable, funny and emotionally engaging

Irish Times

Intriguing, moving and very contemporary

Irish Independent