Katriona O'Sullivan

The story is that I, Wuthering Heights and I loved Shakespeare.

My English teacher was phenomenal and he made a Shakespeare so accessible and I remember getting it.

I could understand the words because it feels like another language.

I loved The Merchant of Venice and I remember reading this book and realizing that Shylock was the victim.

in the story and no one could see it in my class and i was like the injustice oh like i'm standing behind the bike shed smoking my bents and hedges you can't say things like to the gang do you think that shylock was the victim in the merchant of venice and why couldn't you say those things because i was terminally cool terminally cool

There was no way that the joyrider was going to want to go out with me if he thought that I was a bookish girl.

And whether that's my judgment or the truth, I think it's a mixture of both.

So my love of books was my secret.

Like a lot of kids like secretly take drugs or secretly smoke.

I secretly read.

Wuthering Heights.

Yeah, I was under the blankets like reading.

And like my best friend, like she would slag me.

She was like, will you stop reading?

Oh yeah.

It is actually that.

Like in this last couple of years, I actually think, you know, I'm a professor in the university.

I have a PhD in psychology.

I'm a psychologist.

I never really chose them things, Clare.