The first rule in writing stories is that there is no hurry. Some stories in my new book ‘The News from Dublin’ took a decade or more to finish. The second rule is that, once you decide the time is right, you must work with a kind of urgency. Settle down. Stop dithering and faffing around. Look down. Work as though this next paragraph needs to be finished now, now this minute. Thus, one of a mixture of dreaminess and …
Month: March 2026
Saoirse is the story of a young American woman who flees to Ireland to escape the troubles she left behind in Michigan. Travelling under a stolen identity, she boards a plane planning …
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