Róisín Ingle

You have a very strict writing schedule where you write four hours a day, I think, and then you

Right.

And you do write books really quickly.

Is this true that you can write a book in six weeks?

That just sounds really unfair, Jan.

I mean, it's very annoying.

Oh, okay.

So six weeks is lazy.

You and Agatha have something six weeks is lazy.

Yeah.

But is this true as well?

You've got five books written, ready to go.

Yeah.

I mean, there can't be any writer in the world who has five books ready to go and just has them there waiting.

And tell me about this one that's coming out in September.

Then you said it's about that idea.

I didn't know there was two illustrators in that family.

Just going back to Few and Far Between which as I said is an absolutely brilliant brilliant book and very funny too I should say given you know we've talked about a lot of the darker aspects of the subject matter but it's quite hilarious like Marion is a beautiful character who you just love there's also an amazing trans woman character called Sharon who

in the book as well and she's older and she as many people have done used the arch the archipelago as a place of sanctuary somewhere that they could be themselves without the stairs and the judgement of the mainland as you say but writing about Northern Ireland like

I just think it's a brilliant book.