Tell us about your second novel, Saoirse.
Saoirse is a story about an Irish-based artist living in Donegal under a stolen identity. Her peaceful life is threatened after she wins a major visual art award, attracting unwanted media attention.
Like your protagonist, you’ve moved from the US to Ireland. Tell us about that experience. Did you feel as comfortable setting scenes in Ireland as in the US?
Ireland is home; I have lived here longer than I ever lived in the US. For example, I have never been a mother in the US, so my language around parenthood was developed entirely in an Irish context. And also, I have the lived experience of being a young woman in a place that often didn’t feel safe, so there is a confidence, a fluency, as such, between the two settings.
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