To Call Myself Beloved
| By: | Eina McHugh |
| Publisher: | New Island Books |
| Published: | February 2026 |
| Pages: | 256 |
| Categories: | Autobiography, Non-Fiction |
| Language: | English |
| Available as: | Paperback |
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Written in an engrossing novelesque style, yet with nothing fictional included, the book recounts, with engaging honesty, the arc of one human journey in a Belfast-based therapy from 1988-1997. To Call Myself Beloved shares what it is like to bare soul, both on a couch and in a group, making accessible a world that is usually private. It explores the intriguing breadth and depth of a committed therapeutic relationship, in the search of self-understanding and self-love. And it gives brave voice to the fragile nature of humanity, standing witness to an 'ordinary' experience of the 'Troubles', to the human impact of terrorism and political war.