Louise O'Neill: ‘I’m interested in emotional honesty'

Louise O’Neill’s workrate is spectacular. The Cork-born author has just published two new novels, and a theatrical adaptation of Asking For It, the book that made her name, is on the way. Nadine O’Regan asks her how she does it

Louise O’Neill: ‘When I write, it’s like a method acting. That might not make me the easiest person to live with’ Pic: Maura Hickey

Fact: Louise O’Neill makes every other Irish author look lazy.

As she breezes into a Dublin hotel, looking beautiful in a green silk outfit (“Asos White!” she says, downplaying it), O’Neill is here to touch another base in her game of media rounders. Other people write a novel every few years and then promote it. O’Neill has two new books out - The Surface Breaks and Almost Love - and a stage production ...