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Lisa McInerneyâs debut The Glorious Heresies won two major prizes and her follow-up The Blood Miracles another, so you might think her biggest concern ahead of the publication of The Rules of Revelation, the third and last of the set, would be making space on the mantelpiece. But no â she might live near Lady Gregoryâs estate but she is not the Queen of Coole.
âThe nerves are at me big-time,â she says, âIâm a real hoor for attention. It has to be good attention, though. Youâre not supposed to read your bad reviews but I got one and it gutted me, and that was four years ago and I havenât recovered. Iâm supposed to be a cool writer â I want to be like Mr Banville who just doesnât care. I still feel like an emerging writer, three books in, still struggling out of the hedge.â