‘My fear isn’t past — it’s present’: Aida Austin on life with her daughter’s intractable epilepsy
Aida Austin’s childhood summers were spent in West Cork, where her parents had a “tiny, ropey old cottage”.
Her dad, a Dubliner, was a teacher, so come end of term, the whole family — Austin has five siblings — would pile into the car and take the Innisfallen ferry from the UK to Cork, happily foregoing London life for summer in the Rebel County.
