On a third reading of Caoilinn Hughes’s The Wild Laughter, I’m still confused as to what’s going on in the court case at the end. So is the first-person narrator.| www.artkavanagh.ie
Caoilinn Hughes’s two novels are quite different from each other and from her short stories. But both feature strained sibling and parental relations and show several different ways of dealing with the financial crash of 2008 and its devastating impact on Ireland.| letter.talkaboutbooks.net
Though Caoilinn Hughes’s short stories have won prizes, they have not been published in a collection. I list 8 stories that can be read online, and discuss 3 of them.| letter.talkaboutbooks.net