Róisín Ingle

So tell me more about the Connellys.

So there's a patriarch guy

who is this adventurer, this anthropologist, and he has children who he drags over to this island to live because he basically wants to study the community there.

She has a secret phone that she hides from her brother because her brother doesn't want anyone to have modernity and to have phones.

So she hides it under her bed, but she spends a lot of time scrolling those mommy blogs.

And yeah, but then thankfully she has a little bit of a flighty notion and she puts the Navy cardigan back and gets a white one because she just decides I'm going to do something mad.

Brilliant.

Now, listen, as far from the sort of couple of islands where people live, there are a few other islands that are really strange and it's called the Far Side.

And this is where your imagination really took flight.

But I have to commend you for creating these worlds that, you know, feel very real.

And I actually did.

This is embarrassing.

I did kind of Google a bit of like, is there...

Are these things, is there an island where people kill themselves and all that kind of thing?

So tell us about the far side and the darkness of those islands.

Yeah, I mean, the sleepers on that island, it's a really fascinating way to kind of explore that about how the troubles affected the psychology of women particularly.

So it's mostly women who are, I don't think many men end up on the island, sleepers.

And they're all lying there in sort of like a, I suppose, I sort of imagine them as porter cabins or something.

And they're all just there with the nurses there looking after them as well.

And it is really interesting sort of that you're looking at how