Tastemaker

‘A good piece of advice? Can’t go wrong with Samuel Beckett: Try again. Fail again. Fail better’ – author Sarah Gilmartin

The author and critic has always enjoyed time to herself, daydreaming and plotting fantasies

Sarah Gilmartin: set to publish her second novel Service

Sarah Gilmartin should be an inspiration to all aspiring novelists. Born in 1982, the Limerick woman always loved fiction but did not start seriously trying to write her own until the year she turned 30. Before that she had studied English and German at Trinity College Dublin and earned a masters in journalism at DCU, then worked as a business magazine reporter and a bank communications manager.

Doing a course with the award-winning author Claire ...