“It’s a story about a young woman who literally silences herself, sacrifices her family, sacrifices her home and mutilates her body in order for a man she barely knows to find her attractive,” the author Louise O’Neill says about The Little Mermaid. “I think, unfortunately, a lot of young women will empathise with that. I know myself that I did,” she tells Róisín Ingle on the latest episode of the Róisín Meets podcast. It is her second book in as many months, following on from her third novel, Almost Love, and comes just a few weeks before the stage adaptation of her award-winning second book, Asking for It, debuts at the Everyman theatre, in Cork. The Surface Breaks, by Louise O’Neill, is published by ScholasticYou can find all our podcasts on irishtimes.com/podcasts; subscribe to Róisín Meets on Apple, Android, Soundcloud or Stitcher

Source: The Irish Times May 11, 2018 06:00 UTC