"Yes I hope so – I want to continue to write fiction, I really have the fiction writing bug, but I hope I haven’t lost…"

"Yes, I’ve been quite overwhelmed actually. It’s really not what you expect, especially for a first novel, so I am abs…"

"No, not at all. The family tree came to me in a peculiar way – my mother and my father’s second wife are cousins, so …"

"No, again I sort of stumbled along. I was writing form the perspective of James Stack initially – I had tried writing…"

"Yes, definitely, and you think about all the different branches and stories that must be in your family. I have since…"

"I had the help of a fellow from the Dublin historical society – he was sending me pictures and information and I did …"

"It’s all come through stories that I read of the time. The young girl being arrested for stealing a handkerchief and …"

"No, and I don’t really think it was like that back then, in the early nineteenth century. I think the two sides at ti…"

"Exactly – we can put people inside a box and say ‘your this sort of person for doing this, you’re that sort of person…"

"It was a huge learning curve, to be honest. I never pictured myself writing a novel, so when my husband suggested I t…"