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She Stayed Anyway: A Novel of Motherhood, Grief, Second Chances, Madness, and the Mercy We Give Ourselves

She Stayed Anyway: A Novel of Motherhood, Grief, Second Chances, Madness, and the Mercy We Give Ourselves


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She Stayed Anyway is not a love story.It's the story of what happens after the fairytale ends.From award-nominated Irish author Laura Carpenter comes a searing, lyrical novel about a woman who gave her body, her voice, her youth-and stayed in the aftermath of silence. Inspired by true events and told through letters, cassette tapes, and journal fragments, She Stayed Anyway is a novel about motherhood, grief, and the slow unraveling of a marriage built on cultural obedience and quiet despair.Maeve met Ciarán when she was just sixteen. He was older, beautiful, impossible to reach. By twenty-one, she was pregnant. By thirty, she had seven children, no career, and a silence in her marriage so loud it swallowed her whole. With every new baby, every sleepless night, every medical scare and emotional fracture, she kept hoping he'd meet her where she stood-until the diagnosis made it clear she wouldn't be standing much longer.But Maeve never stopped recording.She wrote everything.She documented the lies. The apologies. The good days. The shame.As cancer began to claim her body, Maeve turned to the one thing that could still save her: the truth. Through tapes she records for her children, letters never sent, and fragments of a life never fully lived, she begins to reconstruct who she was before the silence-and decides who she will be with what time remains.She Stayed Anyway is a heartbreaking, unflinching portrait of sacrifice, invisible labor, generational trauma, and the devastating cost of loyalty. It's a raw, brutally honest reminder that staying isn't always a virtue-and leaving isn't always a failure.For fans of Tara Westover, Colleen Hoover, and Lisa Jewell, this novel is both literary and deeply commercial-a perfect storm of memoir-style realism, intimate female rage, and legacy-driven love."This is what it costs to be the one who stayed."---AUTHOR BIO Laura Carpenter is an award-nominated Irish novelist whose work explores trauma, love, and generational survival. Known for her cinematic voice and emotional resonance, her novels have been compared to Tana French, Taylor Jenkins Reid, and Maggie O'Farrell. She is the author of The Ties That Made Us, Crimson Mercy, Ashwalkers. *


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9798297852075
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 220
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: A Novel of Motherhood, Grief, Second Chances, Madness, and the Mercy We Give Ourselves
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 8297852075
  • Publisher Date: 13 Aug 2025
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Weight: 585 gr


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