Write the things people say.
Notice the things they avoid.
A woman may appear entirely capable while carrying an emotional blueprint written long before she understood what love was.
Orla Ashe writes with dark humour, emotional honesty and a sharp eye for the things people say, the things they avoid saying and the burdens women quietly learn to carry.
In How to Date a Psychopath, she examines the distance between appearing capable and feeling safe, tracing the patterns that connect childhood survival to adult relationships.
Her writing looks beyond the obvious villain or dramatic ending. Instead, it explores the quieter emotional architecture beneath a life: vigilance, attachment, humour, grief and the slow work of becoming at home in oneself.
Candid, observant and emotionally precise, with humour appearing in the places readers least expect it.
A close examination of what women carry, normalise and quietly learn to survive.
Family patterns, difficult relationships, emotional survival, recovery and finally finding home.
“The most revealing stories are often hidden inside the lives that appear completely ordinary from the outside.
ireland publishing house