What crime novel would you most like to have written?
Kevin Barry’s CITY OF BOHANE – although there is no way that book would ever have found its way inside my head.
What fictional character would you most like to have been?
Mrs Danvers …
Who do you read for guilty pleasures?
Penny Vincenzi. Like Jilly Cooper, but better. Give me champagne-drinking, horse (and other people’s husbands)-riding, upper-class, family saga escapism over James Joyce any day. Sorry, James.
Most satisfying writing moment?
Seeing my first full-length play, ‘Glanaphuca’, come to life onstage in rehearsed reading at The New Theatre in Dublin last year. It’s something a novelist never gets to see – but as a playwright, I observed my characters as real, living people for two hours on a cold day in December, and not only did I get to hear them speak, I got to witness the audience’s reaction to them. Amazing. Amazing.
If you could recommend one Irish crime novel, what would it be?
Liz Nugent’s UNRAVELLING OLIVER.
What Irish crime novel would make a great movie?
THE LAKE, of course! And I cannot wait to see ‘City of Bohane – The Movie’ when it comes out (I think there is a screenplay in the works …). I’m picturing a ‘Sin City’-type production myself.
Worst / best thing about being a writer?
Best: Being able to work anytime, anywhere. Worst: Your siblings looking at you like you should probably be trying to get a real job.
The pitch for your next book is …?
Some family trees should never be climbed.
Who are you reading right now?
Just finished ALL THE THINGS I NEVER TOLD YOU by Celeste Ng.
God appears and says you can only write OR read. Which would it be?
Write of course! I LOVE reading my own stuff!!
The three best words to describe your own writing are …?
Original, readable and fabulous.
Sheena Lambert’s THE LAKE is published by Killer Reads.
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