Finding Safety On Ireland's Atlantic Edge
Betsy Cornwell writes from crisis towards stability, tracing how leaving an unsafe marriage led to a search for home on Ireland's coast. It is intimate and quietly fierce, particularly for readers drawn to memoirs of motherhood, survival and rebuilding a life from uncertain ground.
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Finding Safety On Ireland's Atlantic Edge
Betsy Cornwell writes from crisis towards stability, tracing how leaving an unsafe marriage led to a search for home on Ireland's coast. It is intimate and quietly fierce, particularly for readers drawn to memoirs of motherhood, survival and rebuilding a life from uncertain ground.
- Book Synopsis
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Ideal for readers who:
- Read memoirs about survival, motherhood and the long work of making a home.
- Are moved by stories where escape becomes a search for safety and selfhood.
- Would value an Irish coastal setting shaped by housing insecurity, wildness and hope.
- Prefer honest, lyrical non-fiction with resilience at its centre.
Betsy Cornwell left home with her baby on his first birthday, checking into a hotel under a false name so her husband could not track them down.
Over the long months of housing insecurity that followed, bouncing around cheap motel rooms and friend's couches, Betsy's determination to offer her son something she'd never had - a safe, stable home - took on the force of obsession.
In The Old Knitting Factory, Cornwell invites readers to join her on the path that led out of her violent marriage and into renovating a run-down house on a lake in rural Ireland, transforming a largely abandoned and abused vacation house into a family home and childcare-inclusive arts retreat space for other single parents.
Along the way, she creates community and finds family wherever she goes - even when she has to build it herself, brick by brick.
Mixing Maid's gripping portrait of single motherhood's precarity with The Salt Path's wild, romantic sense of place - in this case among rural Ireland's cool mists, nubbly Aran yarns, and whispering turf fires - The Old Knitting Factory invites readers to experience the magic of found family and new beginnings.
- About The Author
- Betsy Cornwell is a New York Times bestselling author, writing teacher, private mentor, and retreat leader. Betsy holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Notre Dame and a BA from Smith College, and she currently teaches writing at the University of Galway, Kylemore Abbey, and online. She lives in a historic knitting factory on the west coast of Ireland, which she is working to turn into a funded, childcare-inclusive arts retreat space for single mothers and other twice-marginalised single parents. She is the story editor and a contributing writer at Parabola, and her short-form writing includes fiction, nonfiction, and literary translation and has appeared in Fairy Tale Review, Zahir Tales, Luna Luna, and elsewhere. She holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Notre Dame and a B.A. from Smith College.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781408748961
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Renegade Books, (09 October 2025)
- Number of Pages
- 352
- Weight
- 433 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 230 x 152 x 28 mm
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