The following is from Catherine Airey‘s Confessions. Airey grew up in England in a family of mixed Irish and English descent. She studied English at Cambridge and now lives in County Cork. The debut is a spellbinding novel that follows three generations of women from New York to rural Ireland and back again. It is now available for purchase in bookstores everywhere.
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Toby Lloyd grew up in London and studied at Oxford before moving across the Atlantic Ocean to get an MFA from New York University. His upbringing in the United Kingdom and writing studies in America helped shape who he is as a person and as a writer.
His debut novel, Fervor (in America, Fervour in the U.K.), is about a Jewish family in London who discovers their daughter is a witch. Lloyd carefully mediates on religion, family, politics, and education throughout the book while sprinkling horror themes.
We emailed the author to learn more about his past and what drives him as a writer. Check out the Q&A below!
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