Helena Mulkerns reviews Becoming Belle at writing.ie. * In this, the second literary foray into Victorian times for Nuala O’Connor, the author has created a…
Eilis O’Hanlon reviews Belle in today’s Sunday Independent: Impeccable period detail adds to a fun proto-feminist plotline Growing up in a military barracks in Aldershot…
Excellent review by Helen Cullen of Becoming Belle in the Irish Times: 19th-century pin-up richly fictionalised Hilary Mantel suggested that in death “we enter into…
“O’Connor wrote about Emily Dickinson in Miss Emily (2015); here she vividly reimagines the life of another nontraditional historical heroine. Though certainly less well-known than…
