A new story! That I wrote! About cows and caving and the feeling of drowning, upright, facing the stars.
#TheInheritance is ready for preorders at all good bookshops! RT Please
I don't have an office, just a small desk in a bay window in my bedroom. 5yo refusing to sleep in her bed, so is in mine. Blackout curtains closed behind me while I type. She says what are you doing in the window mammy, it sounds like rain.
"Hey teacher, did yis hear Joe Biden moved into the White House and kicked out Donald Trump?" - from our Friday zoom meeting. None of the news coverage this week has quite matched the perspective of a bunch of 9 year olds from county meath
"Hey teacher, did yis hear Joe Biden moved into the White House and kicked out Donald Trump?" - from our Friday zoom meeting. None of the news coverage this week has quite matched the perspective of a bunch of 9 year olds from county meath
#SoldierSailor by Claire Kilroy is also incredibly funny, isn't it? It's raw and beautiful and heart-in-my-throat, oh-dear-god terrifying. But it's also very funny. Passages like this one had me smiling in recognition. @FaberBooks #amreading
Back to school tomorrow. I am running around here laminating everything in sight. I keep thinking of Tess in @elainefeeney16's gorgeous How to Build a Boat- where she's walking to school, downing shots of Rescue Remedy! New school year teacher nerves captured to perfection
'Doing the books' means being a writer- although admittedly sounds like I'm involved in some sort of financial scam.
Very serious conversation with my 5yo in the kitchen this morning:
Mammy would you rather be a teacher or do those books?
What's it like to try to prosecute your husband for coercive and controlling behaviour?
I spent some time in a London court room listening to how complex and painful this process can be
