Book interview: How to cope when sense of order is turned upside down
Ciara Geraghty. Picture: Fergal Phillips
THE heroine in Ciara Geraghty’s latest novel prefers figures to people; order is essential to Marianne Cross. So when she loses her job, her house and her marriage, and has to return to her shambolic childhood home, she’s utterly distraught. She couldn’t be less like her mother; an artist with bohemian tendencies, who is a recovering alcoholic. How will Marianne cope?
When Ciara planned this eighth novel, Make Yourself at Home, she can’t have known that with Covid 19, the throwing together of fractious families would hold such resonance for so many people.
