In her discussion with Claire Lynch, Helen Cullen reads from her 2018 debut novel The Lost Words of William Woolf and from her latest novel The Dazzling Truth (2020), she discusses her contrasting responses to the ongoing pandemic, and its impact on her work. She offers her opinion on being grouped within the ‘Up Lit’ genre of contemporary fiction and emphasises the emotional catharsis that comes with exploring subjects of melancholia in her writing. She discusses how far her novels can be situation in the Irish literary tradition and comments on her representation of motherhood and on the significance of mother-daughter relationships.www.efacis.eu

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