Disco shifting and the horrors of puberty - the diary of an Aisling

Disco shifting, summer jobs and the horrors of puberty – Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen share Aisling’s teenage diary with Séamas O’Reilly

Sarah Breen and Emer McLysaght, the authors behind the mega-best-selling Aisling book series.

As I begin my chat with Sarah Breen and Emer McLysaght, the authors behind the mega-best-selling Aisling book series, I’m forced to clear something up before we get started. It concerns my sister, who shall remain nameless, and who, it turns out, knew Sarah in another life entirely.

“Remember we were in Barcelona?” she says to McLysaght, to whom this is an unexpected revelation. “Oh, wait. When you were swindling the old people over the phone?” McLysaght replies, with a degree of snark earned only by one’s oldest friends.