Beginner’s Pluck - Anne Marie Casey

After University Anne Marie worked as a film and TV producer in London.

Then, moving to Ireland, she became a scriptwriter for RTÉ. She started with, On Home Ground, then, following some commissions in the UK, she was a scriptwriter for The Clinic. When the series was cancelled, she adapted Little Women for the Gate Theatre. “And that’s when I decided to write a novel,” she says.

“I found that incredibly liberating. With fiction, unlike with scripts, you don’t get constant notes.”