{"title":"Rebecca Ivory Collection","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 6\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eREBECCA IVORY \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewas born in 1993 and is a writer based in Dublin. Her short fiction has appeared in the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStinging Fly, Banshee, Tangerine \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFallow Media\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. In 2020, she was awarded a Literature Bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFree Therapy \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eis her debut. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 6\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFREE THERAPY \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTwo teenage girls enter a destructive competition with one another, fixated on each other's bodies; a woman's encounter with her ex forces her to reflect on the women's group that saved her from the relationship; a couple's future is questioned after the damp expert they hired for their bathroom offers them free counselling, an older man's buried grief emerges during an altercation with a mother driving a 4x4; and over the course of a bitter winter a poor waitress lacks the money to fix an impacted tooth as the cracks begin to show in her precariously balanced life. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFree Therapy \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etakes us into the inner lives of men and women who are versed in the language of therapy, possessed with the self-knowledge needed to change their lives, but finding themselves unwilling to doing it. As her characters try and fail to connect - via sex, friendship, screens and work - Ivory explores desire in all its forms, revealing the ways in which we posture and present, and the softness and insecurities that lie beneath. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePerfectly-observed, wry and illuminated by moments of sympathy and wisdom, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFree Therapy \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eshows us ourselves as we truly are. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"rebecca-ivory-free-therapy-2024-paperback","title":"Rebecca Ivory: Free Therapy [2024] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collection that shows us ourselves as we truly are from a wry and sharp new voice in fiction \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Arresting and inventive'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSALLY ROONEY, author of \u003ci\u003eNormal People\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'I ate it up in two sittings'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSABA SAMS, author of \u003ci\u003eSend Nudes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo teenage girls fixated on each other's bodies enter into a destructive competition; a woman's encounter with her ex forces her to reflect on the women's group that saved her; a couple's future is called into question after the damp expert they hire for their bathroom offers them free counselling; an older man's buried grief emerges during an altercation with a mother driving a 4x4; and over the course of a bitter winter a waitress lacks the money to fix an impacted tooth as the cracks begin to show in her precariously balanced life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFree Therapy\u003c\/i\u003e takes us into the inner lives of women and men who are versed in the language of therapy, possessed with the self-knowledge needed to change their lives, but finding themselves unwilling to doing so. 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