Sara Baume on changing direction and returning to the visual arts
Having gathered plaudits for her early writing, and now with an autobiographical novel just released, Baume is going back to her roots
In today’s world of fake news and alternative facts, there’s a pleasing authenticity to Sara Baume and her writing.
As we sit in the Central Hotel in Dublin on a snowy Dublin morning, the fire blazing in the upstairs bar, her candid nature reminds me of the narrator Frankie in her new novel, A Line Made by Walking.
Sardonic and soul-searching, Frankie is an artist who has retreated to West Cork to deal ...