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The author has spent almost 25 years focusing on young-adult and children’s fiction. In the Movie of Her Life is her first collection of stories for adults
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Asking For It engages the media and popular culture but also its own field, YA, which since the 1950s has pushed boundaries and explored adolescence in edgy, realistic ways
With their open door policy, Irish literary journals often offer new writers their first break and more established ones a platform and the chance to think outside the box
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