When the first lockdown hit Ireland on March 27, 2020, I was living alone with no home-schooling to worry about, and I was already working from home and had been for years. So I hunkered down and started baking banana-bread, binge-watching Tiger King, developing a costly LEGO obsession, hunting for hand-sanitiser stocks and having cocktails over an app intended for corporate video-conferencing. What I should have been doing was writing the first draft of my fifth novel, which centred on …
Month: August 2021
Wallis Simpson has always fascinated me, so to write a novel about her was an act of supreme self-indulgence! However, the Wallis I present in The Duchess is very different …
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