Solicitor and novelist Catherine Kirwan reflects on her path to publication
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Catherine Kirwan
The Irish Examiner has profiled solicitor and author Catherine Kirwan, whose novel Darkest Truth, has just been published.
Ms Kirwan reflects on how she set up a reading group to study James Joyce’s Ulysses and prepared reports on each meeting, which proved a gateway into writing fiction.
“For Kirwan, it was a form of validation and soon afterwards, she wrote her first short story.
“She showed the story to a number of people. One of them said it made her stomach lurch. ‘It gave me a huge thrill that I had done that to somebody. I realised the twist in the story was like what you’d get in a crime novel. I thought that maybe I should write a crime novel. That short story was long-listed for the Fish literary prize which was great encouragement for me’.”
Darkest Truth follows a solicitor called Finn Fitzpatrick who is approached by a man to investigate his daughter’s suspicious suicide, believing that she was groomed and abused by a famous film director.
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