Rememberings

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THE LANDMARK MEMOIR OF A GLOBAL MUSIC ICON
SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2021


Sinéad O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made her famous by the age of twenty-one. Her recording of Prince's 'Nothing Compares 2 U' made her a global icon. She outraged millions when she tore up a photograph of Pope John Paul II on American television.

O'Connor was unapologetic and impossible to ignore, calling out hypocrisy wherever she saw it. She remained that way for over three decades.

In her acclaimed No 1 bestselling memoir Rememberings, O'Connor told her story - the heartache of growing up in a family falling apart; her early forays into the Dublin music scene; her adventures and misadventures in the world of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll; the fulfilment of being a mother; her ongoing spiritual quest - and through it all, her abiding passion for music.

Rememberings is intimate, replete with candid anecdotes and full of hard-won insights. It is a unique and remarkable chronicle by a unique and remarkable artist.


© Sinéad O'Connor 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Critics Review

Tremendous . . . fierce and funny

Sunday Times Books of the Year

Inspiring, liberating, hilarious and fascinating

Irish Times

So good, you’ll want to read it twice

Sunday Independent

Beautifully observed . . . lyrical, funny and anguished

Guardian

It is a soul-bearing, brutally honest account of an extraordinary life

BBC Online

Fantastic . . . the way it’s written is f**kin’ beautiful . . . go out and get it

Blindboy Boatclub

Her voice on the page is as fearless, riveting and unforgettable as her voice in song. The cadence alone is hypnotic, her story essential. Rememberings is a must-read

Michael Stipe

Devastating, wise, hilarious and original

Róisín Ingle

A terrific book . . . absolutely brilliant

Brendan O'Connor

O’Connor gets you onside so completely with her direct narrative, you feel you could be in the same room as her

Sunday Times

Rememberings offers O’Connor’s very personal version of events, a tale of maternal and institutional abuse that might be a misery memoir, if it weren’t related with such eccentric charm and cheery fortitude

Daily Telegraph

From wild youth to troubled adulthood, this memoir is a blast of chaos

Times

Utterly brilliant

Paul Howard

Astonishing. Staggering

Rob Delaney

Superb . . . fantastic

Irish Daily Star

Beautifully written

VIP

Honest and illuminating

Irish Independent

Rememberings is an electrifying reminder of the importance of [O’Connor’s] voice

Business Post

O’Connor brings everything to this memoir

Financial Times

Incendiary

i

Astonishingly good, wise and hilarious

Louise Nealon

Candid, open-hearted . . . a lot of self-deprecation, a lot of laughs, and a measure of honesty that would put most of us to shame

Anglo-Celt

Genuinely incredible . . . [Rememberings is] suffused with humour and forgiveness

Guardian

There’s nothing conventional about Sinéad O’Connor and there’s little conventional about her memoir either. . . She writes with searing honesty and plenty of wit

Independent

Her complicated life makes for riveting reading. From ripping up photographs of the Pope on prime time US television and her mental health struggles to a rollercoaster spiritual quest, she has never been afraid to be fearless

iNews

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