Dervla McTiernan

And after the crash, I just said, I just can't do it again.

I cannot work those 60 hour weeks and with a small baby and I just, I didn't want to do it.

I just couldn't do it.

I wanted to do something completely different.

And we just both decided we wanted a fresh start.

So Australia was our opportunity to do something completely different.

Oh, God, I was like, I was addicted to stories the moment I discovered them.

When I was a baby, mum maintains I learned to read when I was three.

I don't know that could possibly be true because I kind of remember it.

I remember...

following my mum around the house and my older siblings, trying to get them to read me more stories.

And no one would read me enough stories.

So I learned to read.

My mum had seven kids.

She was always busy.

She worked full time.

So I would sit at her feet when she was washing up or ironing or whatever she was doing.

And I would call out the letters because I knew my letters.

She would tell me the sounds and then I could figure out the word.

That's how I learned to read.