An Unflinching and Darkly Humorous Portrait of a Woman Finding Her Way Through Life
Edge of Me by Monika Killeen is a compact, fierce novel about the interior life, the private scores we keep, the small shocks that unsettle us and the stubborn work of staying present. It follows Myrtle, a mother whose ordinary days, the errands, the rows, the bedtime rituals, are threaded with quiet, recognisable struggles. Shame, longing, the ache of becoming other to yourself.
Killeen writes without flourish and without flinching. The prose is spare, lyrical where it needs to be, plain where truth demands plainness. A prologue lands a single, unsettling image and the rest of the book listens for its echo. Scenes move from kitchen light to therapist’s chair to late‑night restlessness; nothing spectacular happens, and everything matters.
This is not a self‑help book or a tidy redemption tale. It refuses answers. Instead it asks the reader to sit in the discomfort of not‑knowing, to learn the small practices that make living possible. The pause before you speak, the boundary you try and fail to hold, the sentence you write when no one’s watching. The result is intimate and precise — a novel that reads like a mirror and a quiet companion.
Edge of Me will appeal to readers who value literary realism about women’s inner lives, clinical readers interested in subjectivity and anyone who’s found themselves staring at a blank page and wondering who they are. It’s a book that lingers.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
MK was born in 1976 in former Czechoslovakia. Discontented with her world shaping in Orwell’s 1984 vision, she left in 1995, eventually settling in London. She learned English as an au-pair and later studied law while a trainee in a city law firm. Her academic journey continued with Master Degrees with Merit in Classical History and later, in Social Sciences. A member of the British Psychoanalytic Council and the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists, MK is a practising psychotherapist
Book Name: Edge of Me
Author Name: Monika Killeen
ISBN Number: 9781971610160
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