S2E18 - Jillian Godsil

Jillian has been a writer since she was very little. She had no doubt as to this career in her first decade of life. On entering her teens, she was just as adamant but strangely found little time to actually write fiction, only a few scattered attempts echoing whatever book she happened to be reading at the time. Into her twenties, she found university and then travel absorbed her time. She lived in London, Sydney and Singapore, before returning to Ireland with her first husband and first child. For her thirties it was all marriage and her children, two girls, which occupied her, as did a very demanding job and restoration of a period house in Wicklow, South Ireland. It was as she approached her 40's, she suddenly went ‘Whoa! Where are my novels?’ and realised for all her talk she hadn’t actually started let alone finished any novels. In her final year of her 30's she sat down and wrote her first children’s novel, The Bell Tower. She had been experimenting earlier with pre school children’s literature but this was her first full scale attempt at writing a novel. It took two weeks to finish. It was also an autobiography with no relation to her life, just samplings of her growing up.

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