Anna Carey

I've always been very defensive of this sort of popular culture that gets dismissed a lot.

And I was really happy recently to see people like Ryan Gosling and Rose Byrne, you know, recently nominated for an Oscar, not only defending soap writing and acting, but, you know, really paying homage to it.

Like Ryan Gosling saying his acting heroes growing up were soap actors and just pointing out how hard they have to work, how they have to learn all these lines and deliver a

you know, strong performances with very little preparation time and how, you know, there's lots of great stuff in these shows and it doesn't always get the credit it deserves.

Yeah.

And then it was Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Yeah, and the way people watch TV has changed.

You know, people watch on streaming.

They watch, you know, they don't have the whole family sitting around the TV in the same way anymore.

Apart from, you know, there's some shows like Traitors that get that sort of reaction.

It's rare though.

It's really rare.

And I think that's why, you know, I wanted to highlight how these shows are so important both for actors and writers and for, you know, especially a country like Ireland.

Just to see a semblance of ordinary Irish life

ongoing on tv is is really important um so yeah i think like tv watching on every form of has of broadcasting has changed but um yeah soaps are a bit beleaguered and i guess i wanted to you know remind people that they're still there and they can do what they do very well

Well, people seem to like it.

Don't be modest now.

It did better than I could have hoped.

But yeah, which was amazing because, you know, it was my eighth book, but my first for adults because my previous books have been like YA and...

I really loved writing it I was one of those things where it was like oh this is what I meant to be writing.