A novel to write home about
“I am very conscious of that,” she says, as we chat for a few hours before her reading at The Dublin Writer’s Festival.
“I think that affects the core of us. Do you belong to the place where you were born, or the place where you are buried? Or do you belong to the place where your children were born? There has been this profound change, and it’s one I don’t think we quite acknowledge,” she says.