Róisín Ingle

I think we've had so many amazing women writers writing about the North, but I think you've kind of cornered that market a bit with the Raptures and everything in the past.

But you were going to church six days a week.

That was normal for you and your family.

What's your relationship with God now?

No, it's really it's a really interesting and nuanced kind of approach that you have.

And I'm sorry to hear that you've had backlash because actually, yeah, you're not coming from a place where you're trying to say that everything about it is terrible or that it's, you know, it deserves a roasting.

You're actually looking at the good parts as well.

Yeah, well, the reason I'm asking you about God is because I'm having a weird thing at the moment where I keep meeting a lot of Christians, a lot of born again Christians and having really interesting interactions with them.

And then I opened your book for, you know, the purposes of work, but also for enjoyment.

And there's a Bible quote right in the first page.

So I'm feeling like I'm feeling very like God is really seeking me out.

And speaking of family, the fact that you've kind of you've you've changed the way you express your faith.

You still say you still have it, but it's not the same faith that you had as a child.

You don't go to church.

Do your family have a problem with that or have you kind of talked that out and it's OK?

They don't make up haunted islands in the middle of the lake.

And engineering, because Terence O'Neill was trying to, you know, how was he going to drain the lake?

That's amazing.

It's a real shame that you can't have that chat with your dad about it.

Listen, you did get out of the bubble.