The morning after 'was the one and only time we’ve ever skipped the hotel breakfast in our seven years of book travels.' Photograph: Getty
I travelled to Wexford last weekend to see two Irish fiction-writing greats, Marian Keyes and Sophie White, at the Write by the Sea literary festival in Kilmore Quay. Sophie was interviewing Marian in St Peter’s Church – many literary festival events end up in churches – and from my audience vantage point in the pews I could see the solemn head of Jesus peeping over one of the freestanding festival posters. It added some lighthearted balance to the Stations of the Cross scene looming from the wall over my head: Jesus is stripped of his garments.
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