This much I know: Lisa McInerney
I grew up in Gort, Co Galway. I was very bookish. I was brought up by grandparents, my ‘brothers and sisters’ were actually my uncles and aunts, the nearest one was 10 years older than me, so I spent a lot of time reading. Essentially I took a ton of books and sat reading them for years - airport novels, Catherine Cookson - whatever turned up in our house. I was a really good girl. I didn’t cause any trouble. I moved through school quietly, mostly thinking about stories. When I was only 17, I went to UCC and studied English. I had a little too much freedom, all of a sudden. I fell in love with Cork. I had the freedom to be an adult - even walking into town on my own and having to make my own meals was a novelty.
I’m back in Gort now, with my husband John and 13-year-old daughter, for financial reasons, but the plan is to move back to Cork. I met John here in Gort but he’s from Cork and I thats the reason we first spoke. I was serving in a pub and in comes this man with this Cork accent and that was it. I’m the crazy creative one, he’s the rock. He has endless patience and lets me bounce ideas off him and waffle on trying to work out plot points.
