My Life in books:  ‘I read exactly 345 pages, stopped... slammed it shut’

Award-winning writer Mary O’Donnell says a book everyone should read is the European realist novel, 'Buddenbrooks', by Thomas Mann

Author Mary O’Donnell: 'I adored 'The Mill on the Floss' by George Eliot but it also made me blub salt tears at the end.'

Award-winning writer Mary O’Donnell has been publishing novels, short stories, and poetry since 1990 and holds a PhD in creative writing from UCC. 

Her latest novel Sweep the Cobwebs off the Sky, published by Époque Press, is out now. She lives in Co Kildare.