She was enjoying her job as a management consultant but a change in career has Lesley Emin feeling as high as the tallest peaks in the west, she tells Lorna Siggins.

AT THE western fringes of Co Galway at the hamlet of Claddaghduff an old road leads down to a beach. 

Maggie O’Farrell tells Sue Leonard that children have made her writing tougher and better. “Having children gives you a great emotional connection”