To Call Myself Beloved, Eina Mchugh

Written in an engrossing novelesque style, the book recounts, with engaging honesty, the arc of one human journey in a Belfast-based therapy from 1988-1997. It shares what it is like to bare soul, both on a couch and in a group, making accessible a world that is usually private. And it gives brave voice to the fragile nature of humanity, standing witness to an `ordinary' experience of the `Troubles,' to the human impact of terrorism and political war.