Cecelia Ahern Exclusive Interview

4 months ago 28th Apr 15:18

Irish writer Cecelia Ahern burst onto the literary scene in 2004 with her debut novel P.S I Love You. The novel went on to be a best seller, remaining at number one for nineteen weeks in Ireland.

Ever since this success the young writer has had a string of hit novels including Where Rainbows End, If You Could See Me Know and A Place Called Here.

2008 saw the release of the big screen adaptation of P.S I Love You starring Academy Award winner Hilary Swank and Gerard Butler.

I caught up with Cecelia to discuss her new novel Thanks for The Memories, the success of P.S I Love You and what the future holds.

Your new book is Thanks for the Memories can you tell me a little bit about it

It’s about a woman who, after a tragic accident, needs a blood transfusion and she receives this from a male donor. After this they feel this link with one another and starts experiencing some of is lifetime memories, his skills his passions his desires and his knowledge. So she is thanking him for the memories, so in effect he has saved her life really.

You did a degree in Journalism and Media Communications how did you make the jump from that to writing novels?

I knew I never wanted to do print journalism we did creative writing courses and radio courses and film production, so it was a very broad course. And after that I decided that I wanted to do film production so it was somehow developing ideas so it was all related. Then I came up with the idea for P.S I love you and started writing, until them writing had just been a hobby.

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