Beginner’s pluck: Virginia Evans

When she was 32 and still unpublished, Virginia was accepted on the MFA for creative writing at Trinity College, Dublin, moving her family over 'an life has never been better'

Author Virginia Evans: 'I’d started writing 'The Correspondent' for myself. My agent persuaded me to let her send it out and it’s sold well around the world. I still can’t believe it.'

A prolific reader who was always writing stories, Virginia attempted her first novel at 19.

“I kept on writing novels. I self-published one, because my computer broke. I needed to sell enough copies so that I could buy a new one, and I did.”