Louise O'Neill: This is my 316th - and last - column for the Irish Examiner

"316,000 words in just over six years - three and a half books, but who's counting?"

Louise O'Neill, author. Photograph Moya Nolan

I'm trying to remember when I received that email from Vickie Maye, the editor of Weekend magazine. 

It was late 2015, I think, or the very beginning of 2016. She had just read my second novel, Asking For It, and wondered if she could take me out for lunch.