Irish author Caoilinn Hughes’ new book explores grief, isolation and sibling love and rivalry.
when Caoilinn Hughes’ smiling face appears on Zoom from her home in the Netherlands. The Irish writer gently reminds me, as she has had to do with other upset readers, that the cat that gets run over is a fictional cat. “I love animals and that is why I don’t eat them.”
Olwen Flattery is an academic, high-functioning alcoholic, acerbic and sharp as she leads her Galway undergraduates on an impulsive geological field trip. The alarming al-fresco lecture on geological doom is conducted on boulders that were once glaciers and home to woolly mammoths. “We’re nearly at the closing credits” she tells them.
Hughes is one of five children. “Siblings can be bonded by shared experiences but also trapped by them,” she says. “I love those latent questions around how siblings negotiate those really, really charged relationships, how they bridge chasms in their belief systems or utterly fail to.” It’s a high-wire act with no safety net. “You can be two years into a book and discover that it is not a novel, it’s just not catching, maybe it was a short story.”
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