We live in a modern world of pressure, a “perfect storm”, and parents are trying their best without a road map. Whilst they can dream about growing a resilient child, …
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The Pull of the Stars began over sixteen years ago when I was in premature labour with our first child who, as a playful five-year-old, would be my model for …
Songs are mysterious companions. I remember turning the dial of my mother’s transistor radio one summer’s evening in the late Seventies and finding Across the Universe by The Beatles. It …
While I was writing my second novel A Sabbatical in Leipzig, I found myself returning to a type of drawing I first encountered in secondary school, while studying for my …
This short, simple book charts a year in the life of an unnamed woman who is trying to adjust to her role as a single mother following the upheaval of …
My urban upbringing was as far removed from the land as it’s possible to be. I once told a girl my age that milk came from cows, only to be …
June 16th. Another cloudless summer day. The RTE Six O’Clock News finishes with a montage of boater hats, round spectacles, moustaches and parasols. Colourful crowds gather each side of the …
Halfway into my week’s holiday at the end of March, our bookshops closed due to Covid-19. It was unwelcome but not unexpected news. The stress which had made concentrating on …
Sally Rooney’s excellent novel Normal People has shown us what friendship, romance, and growing-up really looks like in all it’s ugly raw reality. Once the brilliant TV series also finished, I …
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