Beautiful, Wilful & Adrift: Cork World Book Fest 2025 at Triskel Arts Centre Cork, on Sat 26 Apr. Irish novelists Kathleen Murray and Lisa Harding discuss their works with fellow writer, Paul McVeigh.

One fictional child featured in the book is five-year-old Samuel Adler, whose father disappeared after the 1938 pogrom in Vienna known as Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass. The other is ...