Noel O’Regan talks with editor Ruth McKee for Burning Books
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Which books would you save if your house was on fire? Noel O’Regan, author of Though the Bodies Fall, is the first guest of 2024 on our podcast Burning Books, and it’s a lovely one to start a year of nourishing and engaging episodes about reading, writing, life, the universe and everything.
Join Noel as he talks about his early reading experience, a pivotal moment as a teenager on a family holiday to France, Raymond Carver, John McGahern, learning from Claire Keegan, and his desire and path to becoming a novelist.
Find the new episode here, or listen to back to recent guests Órfhlaith Foyle, Anne Tannam, and Thomas Morris. Find all episodes on Burning Books Ireland, or wherever you listen.
Though the Bodies Fall, by Noel O’Regan
Micheál Burns lives alone in his family’s bungalow at the end of Kerry Head in Ireland. It is a picturesque place, but the cliffs have a darker side to them: for generations they have been a suicide black spot. Micheál’s mother saw the saving of these lost souls – these visitors – as her spiritual duty, and now, in the wreckage of his life, Micheál finds himself continuing her work. When his sisters tell him that they want to sell the land, he must choose between his siblings and the visitors, a future or a past.
