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    Hanging with the Elephant: A Story of Love, Loss and Meditation

    Michael Harding

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    New memoir from author of No 1 bestseller, multi-award winning Staring at Lakes, which named 'Irish Book of the Year' at the 2013 Irish Book Awards.In his new book Hanging with the Elephant, Michael Harding is back in Leitrim, in the north-west of Ireland. His wife has just left for a six week trip to Poland and, in her absence, he is alone for the first time since his illness two years earlier. While alone he ponders on the relationship between men and women and revisits his mother's death - and with his own inimitable humour and insight - once again looks at the meaning of life, death and the journey in between.

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    Michael Harding

    Michael Harding is an author and playwright. A recipient of the Stewart Parker Award for theatre, a Hennessy Award for Short Stories and a Bank of Ireland/RTA award for Excellence in the Arts in 1990, he has written numerous plays for the Abbey Theatre and was writer in association with the National Theatre in 1993.

    His novels include Bird in the Snow, The Trouble with Sarah Gullion and Priest. He is also the author of several bestselling memoirs including Staring at Lakes (winner of the Bord GA is Energy Book of the Year award), Hanging with the Elephant, Talking to Strangers, On Tuesdays I'm a Buddhist, Chest Pain and What is Beautiful in the Sky.

    He is a member of AosdA na, a columnist for over fifteen years with The Irish Times and his podcasts are available on the Patreon platform.

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