This is the first book I have written since my dad died, Ciara Geraghty says of her new book, the hugely entertaining Make Yourself at Home. I wanted it to be joyful and uplifting. It served as such a great distraction to me, from the grief.
Ciara s father Don died three years ago. There was a lot of relief around his death, because he d had dementia for so many years, but also, you re still grieving, she says of the contradictory nature of losing someone to the degenerative disease. I kind of felt that I d grieved him while he was still alive. But you know, time is a funny thing. Once you got over the initial I m so relieved that he s not suffering, and he s at peace , you do feel so sad, that he s gone.
This is the first book I have written since my dad died," Ciara Geraghty says of her new book, the hugely entertaining Make Yourself at Home. "I wanted it to be joyful and uplifting. It served as such a great distraction to me, from the grief."
In 2020, over 155 million people listened to a podcast every week. And whatever your niche interest, whether it s food history or wild swimming, there s a show to match it, most likely hosted by an expert enthusiast in that area. The book world is no exception. Authors Elizabeth Day, Gillian McAllister and Daisy Buchanan all host very popular and much downloaded podcasts. So, what s in it for them?
Caroline O Donoghue, author of two novels for adults and a YA novel, All Our Hidden Gifts (out with Walker Books in February), gets approximately 30,000 downloads per month on her podcast, Sentimental Garbage, which started in 2018 and deep dives into commercial women s fiction classics of the past.