Any Kind of Luck at All
A memoir

I read this memoir in one big gulp. It is written in a spare but sparkling manner, with equal lashings of humour and tragedy. As the introductory chapter suggests, it is about successive generations of strong women and the horrors they have faced. Fairhurst Breen’s mother died of cancer that was mis......more

Utterly compelling. Not only is the author of this memoir funny and smart: she's also incredibly honest. The fact that she's also a feminist with unapologetically leftist politics AND someone who is obsessed with social justice and electoral reform made this book completely irresistible to me. Highl......more

Thank you net galley for providing me with an arc of Any kind of luck at all in exchange for a honest review. Brutally honest, this book takes you to the rollercoaster of Breens childhood years up to her 60s. Although there were enjoyable traits to the book (the humor,Breens way of describing things......more

In Any Kind of Luck at All we meet Mary Fairhurst Breen who has thrown back the curtains to give us an honest view of life growing up in the 70's with a less than picture perfect family. She was surrounded with generations of mental illness, drug abuse, alcoholism and bad tempers. Breen marries youn......more

This book is raw… and it is the rawness that makes it so phenomenally spectacular. This is a daughter, a wife, a mother, a grandmother speaking from the heart… laying out her life for the world to see… being so vulnerable, and opening up incredibly important conversations that are all too easily swe......more