Ann Ingle

Lifted my spirits beyond description! So loving and non-judgemental and Ann Ingle's enjoyment of life is beautiful to behold. Genuinely inspirational. I LOVE ANN INGLE

I loved it, really loved it . . . a very uplifting, hopeful book . . . brilliant

What a beautiful openhearted, at times broken-hearted memoir . . . honest, funny, searingly direct, a wonderful voice . . . remarkable

Heart-breaking yet funny, and jaw-droppingly honest . . . by some distance, the most courageous, most poignant, most life-affirming memoir I've read in the last twenty years and more

Incredibly poignant and so compelling, honest, warm and unique - I love this!

Profoundly honest . . . I relish its kindness, its humour and its courage

A breathtakingly honest account of marriage, motherhood and widowhood . . . extremely moving and hugely inspiring

Those who read openhearted will experience the warm glow of Ann Ingle's company - you are lucky 

Really beautiful. Searingly honest, astonishingly frank and very, very funny

Openhearted . . . is a reminder of how much times have changed and this should appeal to all readers, of every vintage, young and old

Extraordinary . . . a story of survival in the face of extraordinary hardship, but also a love story - and one that betrays not an ounce of mawkishness or self-pity

Eighty Years of Love, Loss, Laughter and Letting Go

At 20 Londoner Ann Ingle fell madly in love with an Irish fellow she met on holiday in Cornwall. At the church to arrange their shotgun wedding she discovered that he hadn't even told her his real name. 
 
Sixty-odd years later Ann looks back and considers what she has learned from the life that followed - bringing eight children into the world, their father's years of mental illness and tragic death at 40, being a cash-strapped single mother in 1980s Dublin, coming into her own in her middle years - going to college, working and writing, and continuing to evolve and learn into her ninth decade, even as she accepts the realities of being 'old'. 
 
Candid about everything that matters - love, sex, heartbreak, money, class, religion, mental health, rearing children (and letting them go), reading and writing, ageing - Openhearted is a compelling story about living life in a spirit of curiosity and delight and with a willingness to look for good in others.

Ann Ingle

Praise for Openhearted

A beautiful book

Lifted my spirits beyond description! So loving and non-judgemental and Ann Ingle's enjoyment of life is beautiful to behold. Genuinely inspirational. I LOVE ANN INGLE

I loved it, really loved it . . . a very uplifting, hopeful book . . . brilliant

A beautiful book

Lifted my spirits beyond description! So loving and non-judgemental and Ann Ingle's enjoyment of life is beautiful to behold. Genuinely inspirational. I LOVE ANN INGLE

I loved it, really loved it . . . a very uplifting, hopeful book . . . brilliant

A beautiful book

Lifted my spirits beyond description! So loving and non-judgemental and Ann Ingle's enjoyment of life is beautiful to behold. Genuinely inspirational. I LOVE ANN INGLE

I loved it, really loved it . . . a very uplifting, hopeful book . . . brilliant

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