Then I left it for absolutely ages until a friend offered to read it at her Christmas party, and eventually I sent it off to agents and got a few offers. I wrote it on trains, in coffee shops on my lunch break, that sort of thing. I’d just left university and I wanted some sort of creative project to amuse myself with, so I thought I’d try a novel. Tell us about your journey to publication. What’s rarer is a thought I want to pursue for long enough to get a book out of it, but that’s not a decision I make in a single moment – it’s a really gradual feeling out. I don’t find the having of a thought to be an astonishing event. To be honest, I never remember how I originally got any of my ideas. What was the inspiration behind your novel Exciting Times? The book has already been shortlisted for several prizes, including Waterstones Book of the Year. Her first novel, Exciting Times, was written while she was living in Hong Kong and finished in just five months. Naoise Dolan, 29, was born in Dublin and studied English Literature at Trinity College Dublin and Oxford University.
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