BEGINNER’S PLUCK: Sarah Harte
“I wrote poems and stories from the age of four, but I gave it up at 20 when I was at college. Then I was too busy with exams, having a baby and practising law,” she says. Leaving her job with A & L Goodbody eight years ago, Sarah studied journalism, wrote features for the Irish Independent and for The Village magazine, before writing fiction. “I decided to write about women who were looking for a new identity after their children had left home. Then, around the time the Celtic Tiger unfolded, I decided to add in that element,” she says.