Book interview: How Aussie in exile JR Thorp brings Lear’s wife back to life in first book

Jennifer Thorp — aka JR Thorp. Picture: Cathal Noonan
ANY reader or contributor to the Irish Examiner Books section would probably consider themselves a word buff, but when author JR Thorp introduced herself as a writer and librettist she sensed the tangible pause. “I write lyrics for operas; I know, it’s a confusing bio as no one seems to know what the word means.”