Free Therapy

Arresting and inventive

Arresting and inventive

A major new talent

Wincingly funny and winningly honest

In her debut short-story collection, Rebecca Ivory has taken all the tiny humiliations of life and made something so precise and articulate that it can feel mortifying to read... A short story collection that feels apt

I ate it up in two sittings. Beneath these stories runs a pulsing darkness, a restless humour, a palpable and astute distrust. Here are all the ways we scam each other, but most of all ourselves

The stories in Free Therapy are unerring, ferociously original, cooly controlled and queasy with revelation. They live viscerally in you for days afterward

Prepare to feel the hot wind of humiliation, via a series of vivid short stories. This debut collection from a smart young writer turns a keen eye on uncertain and untrustworthy relationships

Rebecca Ivory was born in 1993 and is a writer based in Dublin. Her short fiction has appeared in the Stinging Fly , Banshee , Tangerine and Fallow Media . In 2020, she was awarded a Literature Bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland. Free Therapy is her debut.