Copies of Bone and Blood and Michel-Michelle also available from Books.ie – Margo Gorman.
Contact Margo Gorman on gormanmargo@gmail.com.
Writing and AI
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, published by victorinapress.com in March 2020, challenges fixed notions of gender and seeks to increase awareness of diversity in ourselves, our friends, our families, and others. The main character, Axel is an architect in Lille and the son of transgender Michel-Michelle, his birth mother Amelia and her partner, Naomi. Potential fatherhood brings back memories of his own childhood as he recalls his relationship with his „three mothers“ and the mix of French and English in his identity. Challenged by his relationship with his partner, Sophie, he reflects on his father’s transition from male to female and his own transition from child to adult and his move from France to England.
Birth, death, and suicide mingle in his notebooks and dreams. www.victorinapress.com
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. Subsequent research has been built into the main character, Brigitte who moved from Leitrim to Berlin in 1937 at 19 years old. The novel is set in Berlin in 2005 when Aisling arrives from Dublin and unpicks her great-aunt Brigitte’s story as they wait for the funeral of Brigitte’s daughter. Their initial dutiful and distant relationship becomes something more and Aisling learns as much about herself as about the past.
In 2009 I was short listed for the Virginia [Woolf] prize for my novel, Bone and Blood, published in 2014.