Author interview: Cathy Sweeney happy to leave latest creation behind her

'Breakdown' features a wife and mother who leaves her suburban house one day — leaves her teaching job, her husband, and two almost grown children — and never returns

Cathy Sweeney: “ I’d taught in schools; I’d taught in The Institute of Education; I’d written textbooks. You enjoy it, but there comes a time when you know you are sublimating the passion to write into the teaching and it’s not quite the same.”

• Breakdown 
• Cathy Sweeney 
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