Cork World Book Fest review: Enjoyable evening with Sophie White and Sara Baume

A large crowd attended Cork City Library to see both novelists discuss their work with Eimear Ryan 

Eimear Ryan and Sara Baume at the Cork World Book Fest readings at  Cork City Library. Picture: David Creedon

One of the highlights of the Cork World Book Festival calendar was a conversation with Sophie White and Sara Baume on Thursday evening, which offered entertaining and insightful anecdotes about their recent novels and writing processes. Their conversation with Eimear Ryan at Cork City Library drew a large crowd.

White discussed her latest work, literary novel Where I End, citing Inis Meain as a “huge inspiration” for the unnamed island at the centre of her tale. She says the mother-daughter relationship in particular was one she was keen to explore.