![]() Much of the detail in Nora Webster, on the other hand, is from memory much is also made up. I imagined everything after that – her job, her life, the boarding house, the sort of guy she met, what happened when she came back. But I only had two sentences – that she had gone to Brooklyn and then come home and not told them at home that she had got married in Brooklyn and, once she told them, she returned and lived in Brooklyn for the rest of her life. ![]() So how autobiographical (or biographical) are these novels?īrooklyn is based on a story I heard about a girl from the town. You’ve acknowledged that the young widow Nora is broadly based on your mother, you’ve drawn on memories of family neighbours, and Nora’s son Donal is widely perceived as being a version of your younger self. The same week saw the Sundance premiere of John Cowley and Nick Hornby’s adaptation of his earlier novel Brooklyn.īrooklyn and Nora Webster both deal with characters from Enniscorthy, the town where you grew up. ![]() We catch up with the prolific and acclaimed Irish author on the launch of the paperback of Nora Webster, his part-autobiographical novel about grieving and renewal. ![]()
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