Emily Bell: ‘As women, you walk around in fear a lot of the time’

'Making the bestseller list last year with my first book was a bit of a pinch me moment’

Emily Bell. Picture: Derek Miller/ The Picture House London

I grew up in Monkstown. If you’re watching Bad Sisters, it’s filmed around Dublin Bay and that’s my home turf. It was just my two older brothers, and my mum and dad.

It was such a delight growing up in that neighbourhood. It was a typical 80s childhood where we rode around on our bikes down to Dun Laoghaire pier with the boats coming in, getting ice cream at Teddy’s. It’s still one of my favourite places in the world.