A wondrous sensory close-up of a child’s life
ome writers remember their childhoods very vividly, and have the gift of being able to conjure on the page the inner workings of a child’s mind.
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By Nuala Ní Chonchúir
New Island, €13
Some writers remember their childhoods very vividly, and have the gift of being able to conjure on the page the inner workings of a child’s mind.
Joyce does this, famously, in the opening chapters of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
‘‘When you wet the bed,” thinks little Stephen Dedalus, ‘‘first it is warm then it gets cold.” The protagonist of Nuala ...
