In Love in Chaos Mary McAleese shares her deepest beliefs about the way to lasting peace. She opens an original and fresh perspective on the origins of violence and also the painful cure for it. She writes with the authority of a woman who has herself suffered from sectarian violence but who has been actively involved for many years in the search for peace in Northern Ireland. She is also at the heart of her Church's debate over the role of women. She is a wife and a mother, a lawyer and an academic. Her message is tough and loving, serious but full wit and humor. Her insights draw on her deep religious faith, the practice of meditation, and her irrepressible hope that is born of these. She illustrates her ideas with telling stories from her personal life and family, as well as her political experience.