46. Sheila Armstrong in conversation with Hedwig Schwall (14 December 2023)

In her conversation with Hedwig Schwall, Sheila Armstrong discusses and reads from her first novel Falling Animals (2023). Sheila talks about the neoliberalism at the core of her novel; about how we went from small scale, traditional industries to much bigger, largely hidden industries we have little understanding of; about how she uses small, but striking details from real life to create whole worlds; about the importance of forgiveness and how guilt and shame are central to her novel; about fiction being an attempt to bridge the gap between people and try and understand how others feel; about the potential of liminal spaces and leaving threads we do not get answers for; and about how finding the right sentence feels like a door is gently closing.

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46. Sheila Armstrong in conversation with Hedwig Schwall (14 December 2023) is an episode from The Irish Itinerary Podcast by European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies.

This episode is 48:22 long.

This episode was published on Dec 14, 2023.

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