Laethanta Saoire: Cork author Gareth Hanrahan on holidays with his grandmother 

In the latest of our summer-themed reads, the fantasy writer also recalls early interest in  choose-your-own-adventure gamebooks 

Cork author Gareth Hanrahan.

"Summer would be beautiful, but this spring made promise of a greater beauty than summer could fulfill, hinted at a mystery that other summers had evaded rather than explained." - Elizabeth Bowen, Daffodils 

We’re all in our little worlds, most of the time. Things of uttermost importance to one person go unnoticed by others, even those in the same space, even those closest to them. I’m there looking for the car keys that are not in the bowl where they should be come on where are the damned things have you checked the jacket you were wearing of course I have it’s the first place I looked, I’m tearing the whole house apart now, storming around the kitchen like a whirlwind, doesn’t anyone realise how important the keys are, if we don’t find them it’s a crisis, the whole day’s schedule ruined, does anyone know where they are?