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15 Jul 2009I love this city so much. There is such a deep sense of relaxation to it. Any place where you can see mountains and water at the same timne is good for the soul. Not that I am seeing much of it. Tv am studios, books shops and the odd glimpse of a view out [...]
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9 Jul 2009Hi Margot. Thank you for that. Sacred Hearts will be in your hands soon enough. Please let me know what you think.
Meanwhile I have been hurtling around Dublin on the opening of this mad international tour. Such a friendly city, coping well with a recession which is as low as the boom was high. Also [...]
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4 Jul 2009Saturday morning , written after a rather wonderful publication party for Sacred Hearts which went went on way into the night. Woke up this morning to find an article I had written in today’s Guardian newspaper: about a fabulous novel I read by Julia O’Faolain while researching SH built around a 6th century saint, whom [...]
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