Catherine Airey discusses her debut novel, a mesmerising story of family, fate and survival, with feminist writer and activist Laura Bates. Moving from the windy wastes of 1970s Ireland to the burning lights of New York City and back, Confessions follows three generations of women in an expansive tale of secrets and revelation, departure and connection. Painting Ireland both as a place of belonging and as a place that makes a stranger of its women and girls, she examines the irresistible gravity of the past – how it endures through generations, pervasively present even when buried or forgotten.
