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Book Interview: A changed world for women, told in three generations I’ve told the story my mother probably would never have told. But I know it was of deep, deep importance to her, the way the girls were shamed and isolated”.
Esther Freud. Pic: Jillian Edelstein
Sun, 11 Jul, 2021 - 14:00
Interview: Sue Leonard
Esther Freud
Bloomsbury: €16.99. Kindle: €8.38.
There s a photograph in Esther Freud’s office of a beautiful young girl in first communion bridal glory. I noticed it on the shelf behind her as we talked of her latest novel, and she said it was her late mum, Bernadine Coverley – who inspired the plot of I Couldn’t Love You More. Showing me the photo, close up, as we talk via zoom, Esther says that she looked at it a lot when she was writing the book.
I did it partly as a hobby, to write something that I wanted to read. There was a good amount of science, history, folklore, ethnography which I wove together so people coming from any of those interests would find something new.
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