91: Mary Costello, A Beautiful Loan

About this episode

The episode features an interview with Mary Costello discussing her new novel A Beautiful Loan and the complexities of adult life.

Send us Fan Mail This morning we talk to Mary Costello about her new novel A Beautiful Loan. My name is Anna, and for some time now, I have been trying to account for certain events in my life – my adult life, that is – which, from this vantage point of forty-five years, I often find baffling … In 1985 Dublin, nineteen-year-old Anna Hughes is in thrall to Peter Gallagher, an older, worldly man. Anna is introverted and naïve, and Peter’s experience, wide circle of friends and thirst fo...

People in this episode

Hosts: Peter Sirr, Enda Wyley

Guest: Mary Costello

Topics covered

• novel
• interview
• literature
• personal reflection
• Dublin
• coming of age

Keywords

• Mary Costello
• A Beautiful Loan
• Dublin
• 1985
• Peter Gallagher
• adult life
• novel

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: A Beautiful Loan

Places: Dublin

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