Chest Pain: A man, a stent and a camper van

Michael Harding

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Memoirs, Philosophy of mind, Humour

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Hachette Books Ireland
- Paperback Aug 4, 2020 | 9781473690677 | RRP $26.99 Buy Now
- Trade Paperback Sep 26, 2019 | 9781473690653 | RRP $36.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Sep 26, 2019 | 9781473690660 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
Imprint

Hachette Books Ireland
- Paperback Aug 4, 2020 | 9781473690677 | RRP $26.99 Buy Now
- Trade Paperback Sep 26, 2019 | 9781473690653 | RRP $36.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Sep 26, 2019 | 9781473690660 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
Imprint

Hachette Books Ireland
- Paperback Aug 4, 2020 | 9781473690677 | RRP $26.99 Buy Now
- Trade Paperback Sep 26, 2019 | 9781473690653 | RRP $36.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Sep 26, 2019 | 9781473690660 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now

A stunning book about mortality, connection, and the human condition from Ireland's best-loved memoirist

In late 2018, Michael Harding was in a hotel room in Blanchardstown experiencing severe pains in his chest. He eventually phoned an ambulance and was admitted to hospital, suffering from an acute heart attack. Here, in Chest Pain, he looks at the months before the heart attack when he kept the signs of failing health from his beloved and instead retreated into solitude -- and with his own inimitable style and humour takes us with him through the months after a stent had been inserted in his heart, where he travels the roads of Donegal in a camper van in a journey back to the beloved, and to himself.

Chest Pain is a thought-provoking, spell-binding memoir about togetherness and what it means to be alive.

Praise for Chest Pain: A man, a stent and a camper van

Searingly honest, funny, self-deprecating, Harding's narrative seems to rest on the pulse of Ireland - Irish Times on On Tuesdays I'm a Buddhist
A compelling memoir. Absorbing and graced with a deceptive lightness of touch ... Harding writes like an angel - Sunday Times on Hanging with the Elephant
Hilarious, and tender, and mad, and harrowing, and wistful, and always beautifully written. A wonderful book - Kevin Barry on Staring at Lakes
Wonderful ... Like many people who have achieved a great deal, [Harding] cannot recognise his triumphs. This book, like its predecessor, is one of them - John Boyne on Hanging with the Elephant
A book that champions the kindness (or at least company of) strangers as essential for that elusive state known as happiness - RTE Guide on Talking to Strangers

Michael Harding

Michael Harding has worked in theatre as an actor, director and writer. Most widely known as the author of such plays as Strawboys, Una Pooka, Misogynist, Hubert Murray's Widow, Sour Grapes, and Amazing Grace, all produced by the Abbey Theatre, and more than a dozen other plays for leading Irish Companies, including The Kiss, Talking Through his Hat, and Swallow.

He has directed for The Abbey Theatre, The Project Arts Centre, and Red Kettle, and has worked as a performer with many distinguished theatre companies such as Siamsa Tire, Blue Raincoat, The Abbey Theatre and Gare St. Lazare.He was Writer in Association with The National Theatre in 1993, and Writer Fellow at Trinity College in 2001, and has received numerous awards for his theatre work, including The Stewart Parker Award, The Bank of Ireland RTE Award, and Best Male Performer at Dublin Theatre Fringe Festival.

His most recent work, The Tinker's Curse, toured Ireland in 2011.

He is the author of three novels: Priest, The Trouble with Sarah Gullion and Bird in the Snow.