Róisín Ingle

So I suppose the way fiction can sometimes surprise you where you think, oh, I wouldn't be into that.

And then you are.

So that's why I want to say Few and Far Between by Jan Carson.

I think you should read it, despite what Niamh laughing at me.

So you haven't read it, have you, Claire?

I think that's good.

That's a good one.

We're coming to you next, Clare.

This is another short story.

Is that okay?

Yeah, we love them.

We've established that we love short stories.

I can see by your choices.

Well, I know we do have quite big ones, but...

You're here to balance things out, you know.

Last Day of Summer by Ian McEwan.

Thank you very much.

That was really... I loved hearing you talk about that and the art of suggestion, which is something it's not... I mean, I suppose once you try to do it, but it's not easy to do, I think.

And making statements is much easier, but to leave something in that's subtle like that is...

is what we love about the great writers, I think, including yourself, Claire, I would say.