Nuala O'Faolain

And part of it's a psychological, it's a mental block, too, is that if I was struggling with my own writing fiction, then I didn't particularly want to, [laughs] to read someone else who, who did it well.

[laughs] Um, I, I also love Nuala O'Faolain.

I remember reading her as well, and I loved too her life was so different to mine.

And that, there's something lovely about that, that's...

This is one of the big changes.

But she did talk about her relationship with the late Nuala O'Faolain, and this might just break your heart.

Any regrets in your life? Yes.

I very much regret, Miriam, that, uh, at the time when, when I realized, uh, uh, me and Nuala O'Faolain were falling out of love, that we weren't no longer courting each other.

I wish I'd done what I'd often wanted, to walk to the corner of the street to watch her coming home.

Um, just study her, have her all to myself.