Aileen Ferris

It’s been a month since I finished reading John Boyne’s latest novel, The Heart’s Invisible Furies, and I haven’t quite gotten over it yet. A radical statement, about a novel?  Perhaps, but Boyne’s story and characters have remained with…

Children’s author E.R. Murray is a Middlesbrough transplant in West Cork.  She has also lived in both Dublin and Spain, among other places, and her sense of place has a great influence on the setting of her novels.  Ebony Smart, the…

It was August 2002, and 17 year old Leona was curled on a trolley in A&E, rocking back and forth with pain, no energy left to cry anymore.  She had been admitted the night before with debilitating pain in her lower abdomen.  This was…