Louise O'Neill: 'It’s hard to challenge the part of me that wants to lock myself away from the outside world'

Picture: Miki Barlok

My new novel came out this week, I’m not sure if you heard? (After the Silence, available now!) 

I was led by the publicist – another Cork woman, naturally – to bookshops and TV studios and radio stations, where she pretended like she wasn’t bored of me giving the same spiel every time. “Yes, it’s a psychological thriller about a True Crime documentary,” I said again and again.