Olive Travers of Sunday Miscellany fame will interview Monica Corish about her prize-winning novel ‘LeafLight Moon – a novel of prehistoric Ireland’ on Sunday 9th November at 1.30 pm in the Abbey Arts Centre, on the final day of the Ballyshannon Allingham Arts Festival. The event is free, and all are welcome.
Photo credits: Brendan Murray and Emer O’Shea
“When I closed the covers of LeafLight Moon, I immediately missed its cast of characters! This novel’s emotional charge arises for me from the empathy with which Monica gives voice to the characters’ inner lives. They felt both startingly contemporary in their complexity, yet utterly true to their own time. They feel vividly real. Through them we experience prehistory not as a distant curiosity but as a well-spring of our modern dilemmas with its themes of belonging, loss, adaptation and the costs of progress. The natural world they inhabit is a living presence evoked with such poetic precision throughout, that it is not just a backdrop but another character in its own right. The novel is a nuanced portrayal of the perpetual tension between preservation and progress. This is historical fiction at its best, lyrical, intelligent and humane.” Olive Travers
Monica Corish 