Description

Brenda Dennehy grew up in a happy, loving home in a small village on the Cork-Kerry border – and still spent years quietly carrying something she didn’t have a name for yet.

This book doesn’t ask you to judge her for any of it. It asks you to sit with her through it – rock bottoms, two stints in rehab, a career she lost and fought to win back, and a grief that very nearly broke her for good. Brenda tells it all with unflinching honesty, but never without tenderness for the girl she was, the people who loved her anyway, and the version of herself she eventually found.

Because underneath it all was always someone hard-working, funny, and determined to be loved – a girl who went on to work beside some of the biggest names in Irish and British broadcasting, who ran marathon after marathon in honour of the father she lost, and who built, from nothing, a platform that now helps thousands of people feel less alone in their own darkest moments.

This is a story about resilience, about shame loosening its grip the moment you stop carrying it alone.
It’s about the people who never gave up on Brenda, even when she’d almost given up on herself. And it’s about the promise she made in a treatment centre, barely able to hold a pen, that one day she would make the mother of all comebacks.

She did.

This is a pre order, the book will be shipped at the end of October.