Elizabeth Costello

Although there is maybe a kind of a glimmering of an Irish connection in the book because...

the novelist Elizabeth Costello, the eponymous novelist, has written, which we'll come on to later.

Shall

we fold

And um and her, yeah.

So here's a paragraph which I'm laying on the table as an attempt to say, to answer Nikki's question.

Elizabeth Costello, the eponymous hero of the novel, is a famous Australian novelist.

Now in her late 60s and living in that strange otherworldly realm where most of her professional life consists in delivering academic lectures or attending award ceremonies.