Book review: Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan by Ruth Gilligan

I interviewed her at the time, and found her to be supremely confident, and ambitious. (Also an actress, she had a teenage part on Fair City.)
Ruth followed her debut with two, less successful books, both written by the time she had left Cambridge University, and since then, she has been honing her craft, dabbling in journalism, and taking an MFA in Creative Writing, a subject she now teaches at Birmingham University. And it’s clear the writer is keen to shrug off her early, juvenile efforts.