True bookworms will agree that you can never have too many books or book columns. With that in mind, RectoVerso‘s thanks are due to Broken Spine‘s Ronan, who agreed that there was room for another book column on Culch, and so it is that RectoVerso will be coming to you weekly, recommending, reviewing and ruminating. You can expect posts to be on a Friday, but for this week only, since we’ve been only bursting about the excitement of it all (I say we, I mean me), we bring you the very best post we could come up with to launch the new column: an interview with Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry, to name but a few.
Audrey was on a one-stop visit to Ireland recently to do a reading and Q&A session for Hughes and Hughes Dundrum with Edel Coffey of the Irish Independent and myself and Lottie and Pluincee went along to hang on her every word, get a few books signed and smile sweetly at the PR lady who’d granted us an interview.
While there’s a certain amount of bias at play when you’re talking about one of your favourite authors, I think the other Culchies who met The Time Traveler’s Mammy would agree that she was altogether lovely and down to earth, and that wonderful thing, happy to talk about books all day. There was no trace of truth to the phrase ‘don’t meet your heroes’ when Culch sat down with Audrey Niffenegger, so without further ado, here’s seven short minutes of chat with the lady herself. One small warning, it does assume knowledge of the books, but we’re hoping to be forgiven for that just this once, on account of one of them being made into a filum and all.
Many thanks to Rick and Lottie for photography and filming on the day, Darren for the dandy editing job and Chloe the PR lady who made it all happen and of course Audrey Niffenegger herself. Sorry I forgot to ask you about your favourite kind of pie!
Look out for RectoVerso‘s review of Her Fearful Symmetry next week.
Good interview. Have to admit that i haven’t read ‘The Time-Traveller’s Wife’, but have laid my hands on a copy of ‘Her Fearful Symmetry’ - so it’ll be a good place to start i hope!
I’m extremely proud of you sweetheart, you did a brilliant job x
Fantastic. First post to beat all first posts. Great job Sinead.
Now I’ve got to try and outdo you!
I haven’t read her books, but she seems like a very interesting, and approachable person. Great to see.
@Emlyn I’m halfway through it, it’s definitely a good introduction to her work.
@Rick Aw boss, thanks for taking a chance on an unknown kid
@Ronan Thank you! Is this becoming a book off? Ah well, it’ll make us both stay on form
Go Sinead! Go Sinead!
@Emlyn & Ronan - I’d recommended starting with The Time Traveler’s Wife. it;s one of the most beautiful books I’ve ever read. You will be totally hooked!
Her fearful symmetry was a pile of pants.
smashin! loved the Time Travellers Wife too. The film just couldn’t do justice to the book. Though it did try! Just hard to get across the whole thing in two hours.
Good stuff Sinead
Great interview Sinéad, looked like you did a lot of homework on her before the interview. Her response to your question regarding her book and its’ affect on love was very interesting.
Like your bio, very funny
@Lottie go you and all, thanks for the help
@Voodoolady so far I don’t think it’s as good as TTTW, but I’m liking it.
@Sharon I wasn’t a huge fan of the movie. It conflicted with how I saw a lot of things in my head, and Eric Bana was not my Henry!
@Keleher thanks a lot, I knew she’s been interviewed about the books the night before so I wanted to ask a few different things to keep it interesting!
I was very disappointed with HFF, I guessed the outcome, and I am NEVER able to do that.
The only reason I bothered to finish it was I was on holiday and ran out of books.
Still though, TTTW rocks.
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I put off watching this interview until I had read Her Fearful Symmetry in case there were any spoilers but now I’ve read it, there were none!
Voodoo lady I have to agree that HFS was not as good as TTTW although I did fly through it in a weekend, very easy to read. It was good if you could totally suspend certain realities-I don’t know why I found it more incredible in this book than to believe in time travel in the other one, lol.
Sinéad when are we getting that review? I might have to write one myself!