Andy Miller

But when she died in 1997, she was so unknown in Ireland that she didn't even get an obituary.

So she's a writer of the highest quality

Stretches from New York to Ireland.

In this collection of stories, it's all set in the suburbs of Dufflin.

One of the weird things about Norwich that sticks in my head, I was a huge fan of the Arthur Ransom books when I was a kid.

Do you know the opening sentence of The Big Six, which is set on the Norfolk Broads, is, Norwich station is a terminus.

That's the sentence.

It's kind of always...

I remember going to Norwich Station and indeed it is a terminus.

It's that idea that it's the end of the line, right?

It's brilliant.

There's a David Hayden short story right there.

This is a broad spread, let's be honest, a geographically broad spread of places for us to be thinking about an Irish writer.

John, shall we... Okay.

Hello and welcome to Backlisted, the podcast that gives new life to old books.

Today, you find us in the garden of a terraced house in the newly built suburb of Ranla in South Dublin.

It's the early 1920s and a woman is carefully picking flowers with a pair of scissors.

A rough white-haired terrier follows her hopefully as she assembles a small bouquet of pinks, marigolds, daisies, a sprig of forget-me-not.

She intends to put it in a vase to brighten up the small upstairs room her husband has taken to sleeping in.

Yeah, we all have.