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18 March 2025<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Rois\u00edn O’Donnell is an award-winning Irish author. Rois\u00edn won the prize for Short Story of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards in 2018, and was shortlisted for the same prize in 2022. She is the author of the story collection Wild Quiet<\/em>, which was longlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize and shortlisted for the Kate O\u2019Brien Award.<\/p>\n

Her short fiction has featured in The Stinging Fly<\/em>, The Tangerine<\/em>, the Irish Times<\/em> and many other places. Other stories have been selected for major anthologies such as The Long Gaze Back<\/em>, and have featured on RT\u00c9 Radio. Her debut novel Nesting<\/em><\/a> was published in January 2025 by Scriber UK and Algonquin US. It became an instant bestseller. You can find Nesting<\/em> on the Suffolk Community Libraries catalogue<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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What was your first introduction to books and reading? Were you surrounded by books as a child or did you visit a library?<\/strong><\/p>\n

My mum is an avid reader and she had me enrolled in the local library when I was only a few months old. I grew up surrounded by books, and also by a great tradition of aural storytelling. My granddad, my mum and my dad are all great story tellers, and I think that listening to them weaving stories around the kitchen table really had a profound impact on me. Then at school I had a number of teachers who were very encouraging. My spelling was awful, and my handwriting was also a bit dodgy, but luckily I had teachers who saw past that and encouraged me to write. I only really appreciate now how fortunate that was.<\/p>\n

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When did you first start writing with a view to publication?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I held aspirations of becoming a writer from a very young age, and I attempted to write all through my teens and twenties but I never had the confidence to show my work to anyone. When I turned thirty, in 2013, I decided it was time to take my dreams seriously, and I enrolled on an evening class at the Irish Writer\u2019s Centre. The teacher Dave Lordan was incredibly encouraging, and he advised me to start sending my short stories to competitions and journals. I followed his advice and luckily my short stories began to be published.<\/p>\n

I published a collection of stories, Wild Quiet<\/em>, in 2016. Then I became a parent, and took up a full-time teaching post to support my family, and writing time seemed to evaporate completely. Sometimes honestly I look at Nesting and think \u2018how did that happen?\u2019<\/p>\n

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What is your writing routine?<\/strong><\/p>\n

My routine varies quite a lot, and is often a matter of grabbing writing time whenever I can. When I was writing Nesting<\/em>, I was working as a primary teacher and solo parenting two young children, so I had to come up with creative solutions to create writing time. I used to set my alarm to get up half an hour early in the morning to write, or I would stay up late. I often wrote on my phone during the day, using the Google Documents app, whenever an idea occurred.<\/p>\n

At the moment I am on a career break, so I have a little more time. I don\u2019t have an office, so my writing space is my car, the sofa, my bed, wherever I happen to be! People think that you have to write full time and have a perfect set-up to produce anything of value, but that just isn\u2019t true. All you need is a pen and a cheap pad of paper, or a phone with Google Docs.<\/p>\n

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Can you tell us a little about your new novel Nesting<\/strong><\/em><\/a>?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nesting<\/em> is the story of one woman\u2019s attempt to break free from a toxic relationship and build a better life for herself and her children. Ciara Fay initially seems to have the perfect life, but behind closed doors she is completely controlled by her husband Ryan, who has cut her off from her friends, her work and her beloved family. One spring day, Ciara has a moment of clarity when she realises this is not the life she wants for herself and her children, and so she makes a split second decision to leave and seek a better life.<\/p>\n

With family across the sea and nowhere to go, Ciara finds herself living in emergency homeless accommodation, dealing with red tape, Ryan\u2019s relentless campaign to get her to come back, and the voice of her own demons. Help comes from unexpected places, and Ciara gradually begins to rebuild and rediscover the strength that has been taken from her.<\/p>\n

As I was writing, Nesting<\/em> became a sort of quest narrative. It became a story about the meaning of freedom.<\/p>\n

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Nesting<\/em> started life as a short story, Present Perfect<\/em>. How did the story grow in your mind and what was it about Ciara’s story that just wouldn’t let you go?<\/strong><\/p>\n

That\u2019s right \u2013 it all started with a short story. I was commissioned to write a story for radio on the theme of \u2018independence.\u2019 This was at the height of lockdown, when we were all being told \u2018stay home, stay safe.\u2019 But what if home was the least safe space you could be? Coercive control had only recently been made a criminal offence in Ireland, and I felt that there were so many stories which were still untold. I wrote a story about a woman called Ciara Fay who was raising her children in a hotel room, having left a toxic relationship.<\/p>\n

The short story Present Perfect<\/em> unfolded over a single day filled with struggles and small triumphs. After the story was finished and had been broadcast on the radio, I kept thinking about it. I honestly think I was just really worried about the characters! I had got them into a terrible situation and I needed to know how or if they were going to find a way out. Deciding to continue the story felt like a type of loyalty to Ciara, and to all the women who have been in her shoes. It was stubbornness on my part. Refusal to look away, or to give up.<\/p>\n

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Nesting<\/em> does not shy away from the details of a coercive control relationship. Reading it I found myself walking on eggshells with Ciara. You have also highlighted the housing crisis in Ireland and the realities of poverty. What is the central message you would like the reader to take away with them?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have always been drawn to untold stories, and silenced voices. Stories like this were shrouded in shame and stigma in Ireland for so long. Even now, when faced with stories of domestic abuse and homelessness, our default reaction is often to look away, or to stick to the safety of the statistics. I wanted to bring these stories into the light; to give Ciara back her humanity, and to challenge unhelpful stereotypes around coercive control and homelessness. Perhaps that is the central message, but it\u2019s not really for me to say.<\/p>\n

I really believe that the reader completes the picture, and each reader will take something different away from Nesting<\/em>. Maybe it\u2019s a story about breaking away from the misguiding comfort of the familiar and taking a chance on the unknown. Maybe it\u2019s about rebuilding your life in the wake of trauma. Or perhaps it\u2019s about found family and the meaning of home.<\/p>\n

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I’d like to ask you about your book of short stories, Wild Quiet<\/em>. There is a science fiction story in the collection, Titanium Heart<\/em>. Have you any plans to write any more science fiction or was this a one off for the collection?<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are actually a few magical realist stories in Wild Quiet<\/em>, along with stories that play with narrative form. My earlier work was quite experimental. I think I was trying out lots of different ideas as a way of finding my voice. Among my early influences were writers like Donald Barthelme and Roberto Bolano. I think I was drawn to the subversive power of the sci-fi or magical realist elements. Aspects the sci-fi definitely continued into Nesting<\/em>. It hasn\u2019t really been picked up on, but there are elements of surrealism woven into the novel; the crow, the circus performers. I think those elements of the surreal provide a slightly unsettling, disquieting strand to the story.<\/p>\n

For me, it\u2019s about challenging perceived notions of what is \u2018normal,\u2019 \u2018realistic\u2019 or \u2018acceptable.\u2019 With a story like Nesting<\/em>, Ciara\u2019s sense of reality has been constantly undermined by years of gaslighting, and she is caught in a state of not knowing what is normal or believable.<\/p>\n

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What’s next for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am working on a new novel. It\u2019s too early to talk about it yet. I am highly superstitious in that regards! If I try to pin down a story too soon by explaining it to someone, the entire project seems to fall apart. I am enjoying being back at the very start of the novel-writing process, with a new set of characters and settings. I am allowing the story to lead me, and allowing my interests to wander quite freely. It\u2019s quite a messy process at first, jotting down lots of notes, not knowing how all this will come into play.<\/p>\n

George Saunders says that \u2018editing is a chance for a writer\u2019s intuition to take over,\u2019 but I actually think that tuning into your intuition is a major part of the entire writing process. It\u2019s possibly the thing that draws me to writing the most. Writing is pure instinct.<\/p>\n

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One book you wish you had written..<\/strong><\/p>\n

Beloved<\/em><\/a> by Toni Morrison. The way she makes history so sharply relevant, and the way she weaves the supernatural elements into the story so skilfully. There is a hypnotic quality to this novel, but when you start to look at the structure, it is incredibly complex. Her writing is fluid and poetic, and the reader is caught in a state of dread and rapture. Morrison was a genius.<\/p>\n

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Can you tell us one thing about yourself that your readers would not know?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I love animals, and I used to want to be a vet. This was when I was a very young child, and I think I\u2019d already decided I wanted to a writer too. So, a writing vet?! I loved watching All Creatures Great and Small, and shows like Lassie. My family always had pet dogs and cats, and gerbils at one point (a food chain, a neighbour once pointed out). Anyway my ambitions of being a vet faded once I got older and realised that a) I don\u2019t like the sight of blood and I\u2019m quite squeamish and b) it would be too heartbreaking.<\/p>\n

Now I just have one pet, a nine-month old Cavapoo called Rosie. She is spoilt rotten.<\/p>\n

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