sarahdunant.com » literature http://www.sarahdunant.com/blog Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:39:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 On the road but with no rock star entourage http://www.sarahdunant.com/blog/2009/07/on-the-road-but-with-no-rock-star-entourage/ http://www.sarahdunant.com/blog/2009/07/on-the-road-but-with-no-rock-star-entourage/#comments Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:15:58 +0000 Sarah Dunant http://www.sarahdunant.com/blog/?p=22 Hi 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 reeling from revelations of abuse within the Catholic church, all now documented in a new public report. So there was much talk about religion an how each and all religions handle the high octane pressure of  sexuality and how far Catholicism in particular demands too much from those who end up as priests and nuns. All of course utterly wonderful for me as these are just some of the kinds of questions – albeit 500 years ago, that I am asking in Sacred Hearts.

Anyway, the high spot of the crazy 48 hours was to find myself staying in  the same hotel as Bruce Springstein  Of course I didn’t see him, but just to know that he might have been in the same lift. Everyone has to have heroes don’t you think?  Next stop Toronto…

]]> http://www.sarahdunant.com/blog/2009/07/on-the-road-but-with-no-rock-star-entourage/feed/ 5 Saint and sinner – new article in The Guardian http://www.sarahdunant.com/blog/2009/07/saint-and-sinner-new-article-in-the-guardian/ http://www.sarahdunant.com/blog/2009/07/saint-and-sinner-new-article-in-the-guardian/#comments Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:44:31 +0000 Sarah Dunant http://sarahdunant.com/blog/?p=10 Saturday 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 the novelist thinks began life as  a bit of a sinner. Those of you interested in women getting their heads above the parapet of history should check it out.   http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jul/04/fiction. Happy to talk about it more…..

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This is the forum that continues long after the page has closed.  Welcome.

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