‘My life is the plot of a bad book and therefore I have no interest in reading fiction,” says Jamie O’Neill, the indelible 13-year-old at the heart of Elaine Feeney’s second novel. It’s a ...

Poet and novelist Elaine Feeney is one of four Irish writers on the Booker Prize longlist this year, and her story of pain and loss raises some universal questions about parenting in a world falling ...