Her first baby, Jemima, arrived four days early, just as Abbie was finishing the edits of In Safe Hands.
“I was sitting in Mount Carmel with an epidural in my back, in labour, and still editing,” says Abbie, when we meet for tea in Dublin’s Merrion Hotel.
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