![]() ![]() Our interview in many ways unfolds like a novel. An hour in his company passes in what seems like minutes. The Dublin author is entertaining company, a consummate storyteller who skips the superficial in favour of delving deep into the human condition. It is, much like Boyne himself, an absolute riot. ![]() His new novel, A Ladder to the Sky, is a roman-à-clef of the literary world where real people and fictional characters collide in various tales of betrayal and backbiting. Last year's The Heart's Invisible Furies charted the life of a gay man against a backdrop of seismic change in Irish society from 1945 up to the marriage equality referendum in 2015. The line between fiction and reality blurs when it comes to Boyne, an author whose personal experience is increasingly finding its way into his books. It seems fitting that the quote is from his good friend John Irving's much loved novel The World According to Garp. As he sits in the bar of a Dublin hotel with the sleeves of his summer shirt rolled up, the last words of one of Boyne's favourite novels are etched on his forearm in American Typewriter font: we are all terminal cases. ![]()
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