A question of taste: Eimear O’Herlihy
Two standouts are Max Porter’s debut novel Grief is the Thing With Feathers and Marion Coutts’s memoir The Iceberg. They are both so beautifully written and incredibly moving. I’m also a huge fan of every word Kevin Barry has ever written.
Room. The original novel by Emma Donoghue is one of my favourite books ever so I was both excited and apprehensive about the cinema adaptation. Emma and Lenny Abrahamson did such a magnificent job in translating this wonderful novel into an equally wonderful film.
