WRITING – I write from necessity. If I’m not writing, I’m miserable. I’ve written lots of non-fiction over the years but I reached a turning point in 2009 when I was short listed for the Virginia [Woolf] prize for my novel, Bone and Blood, published in 2014. Now every day is a writing day wherever I am.
Gunther
Gunther will be my third novel. It is about writing and AI Das Buch erscheint im Herbst. Stay tuned!
Michel-Michelle
My second novel Michel-Michelle challenges fixed notions of gender and seeks to increase awareness of diversity in ourselves, our friends, our families, and others.
Bone and Blood
My first novel, Bone and Blood, was inspired by a visit to Ravensbrück concentration camp near Berlin where I found out some Irish women had been imprisoned during the Second World War.
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Writing
The Tír Connaill writers’ group has helped me cope with COVID time. We have gone from strength to strength by mixing email edits with Zoom meetings. The collective feedback edits, develops, encourages and inspires us all on to greater efforts.…
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I long ago left my chrysalis to butterfly my way around the world. Now the government asks me to wrap myself in silk and deny the reality of the swift shortening of life expectancy for all of us in this…
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My novel Michel-Michelle arrived in the post to-day ready for readers at the launch in Irish Writers Centre on 5th March at 6.30pm. I am reminded that diversity flows through the imagination shared between reader and writer. As a reader,…
Michel-Michelle
Launch Invitation 5th March Irish Writers Centre, Dublin, 6.30pm Axel, the main character in my novel, Michel-Michelle, is an architect in Lille and the son of „three mothers“ – Amelia, his birth mother, Naomi, her partner and Michelle, Axel’s transgender…