Hughes’s new book, Emma, Disappeared, follows James Lyster, whose life begins to unravel after the disappearance of a high-achieving university graduate
Emma Harte, a high-achieving university graduate, has disappeared without trace. While a national debate about women’s safety rages, archivist James Lyster seems to be following her story with undue interest. When a sympathetic tweet he makes about Emma goes viral, he finds himself drawn into the world of idealistic university students involved in the search – and attracting the attention of a police detective. As the net tightens, James’s comfortable middle-class life begins to unravel.
Your first book, Lives Less Ordinary: Dublin’s Fitzwilliam Square, 1798-1922, was recently reissued. Who is your favourite former resident?councillor who kept a safe house in No 5 for ministers of the First Dáil on the run during the Your heroine Abigail Lawless, the 18-year-old daughter of Dublin’s coroner in 1816, proves herself an able sleuth. The novel’s first line captures her personality well: “For my 18th birthday, Father promised me the hand of a handsome young man, which he duly delivered mounted in a glass bell-jar.” Will we see her again?
John Givens, author of A Friend in the Police and Living Alone, and brother of Liffey Press publisher David, ran a historical fiction workshop you attended in the Irish Writers Centre. How big an influence was he?
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