My book is coming out in the time of coronavirus. This doesn’t bother me as much as you might expect, but it does, perhaps, somewhat date its treatment of the Dublin political scene. This is not a central theme in This Happy but a mischievous context: my protagonist Alannah, a lazy socialist, is marrying a ‘baby Blueshirt’ left out in the rain and apparently not especially bothered by that. Mostly because they have incredible sex. I have noticed the trope …
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