I wrote the outline for my first novel, There’s Been A Little Incident on a flight from Dublin to London where I was living at the time. I had been circling the themes of the novel; grief and loneliness- for a long time. But what became clear to me on that flight was that although I wanted to capture the raw brutality of grief- I was actually more interested in what comes next; in how you manage to live with the pain- and the …
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Hello Dubray readers! I hope you are all well and cosying up next to your fires and reading your books now that it’s autumn. Listen I have no clue what …
My fiction debut, The Amusements, is a novel of interconnected stories set in the seaside town of Tramore – a place I know well because my family are from Waterford. With the …
Short stories are the subject of so much myth and mysticism that for a long time, I was afraid to try writing them. So when I was struck with a …
We are over half way through the Read Irish Women Challenge 2022 and it has been wonderful to behold the enthusiasm and response on social media. Thank you to everyone …
The idea of becoming a writer was given to me in a forest. There had been hints before but I’d ignored all the signs. Motherhood changed that. A group of …
‘The New Normal’ is a phrase we’ve all had to come to terms with over the last two years. Things that we thought would always be there, or always be …
Shortly before the lockdown began in March 2020, we spent a weekend on the west coast of Clare, arriving into a storm that lasted the entire trip. Rain lashed the …
4 STARS For Fans Of: Carmen Maria Machado, Emma Donoghue, Deirdre Sullivan Highlights: “the skellington dance” / “red market” / “lemons” / “instinct” How To Gut A Fish is the …
Would you help out an old friend in their time of need? It’s usually a pretty easy thing to do. To loan them something they’ve run short of, to look …
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