In this award-winning debut, Irish Emilie Pine writes with radical honesty about everything we don't talk about in modern women's lives. She writes about childlessness, about having to look after her alcoholic father, about the taboos of the female body, about involuntary sex, about the ubiquitous everyday sexism and about a brutal Irish abortion law.

Notes to Myself is a collection of six deeply personal essays, at once brave, caring and wonderfully uplifting. Together, they draw a portrait of a modern woman's life, which with its personal starting point has affected an entire generation.

"An intelligent, brave and relevant book." - Information

"Emilie Pine's debut book Notes to myself is a tender, well-written and heartbreakingly honest collection of essays on personal and sensitive subjects." - Modspor

"Enlightening and thought-provoking collection of essays... my warmest recommendations." – Bookblogger

"Pine delivers six essays with depth and the nebulous humanity that makes it real." - Write for a living.

»Enriched, touched and opened by this book, many of you have probably read. Well actually also a bigger feminist than before reading.'' – Marie Louise Tüxen.

The author

Emilie Pine (b. 1977) is a writer, critic and lecturer in modern drama at University College Dublin. Notes to Myself is her fiction debut. The book was originally published by the small Irish indie publisher Tramp Press in 2018, but in a few weeks became a real word of mouth success and went straight onto the bestseller lists, where it remained for more than a year. The book won seven awards and was named Best Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards.