The Heart of Everything by Henrietta McKervey: an extract‘Raymond loves his mother, but it has become an abstract. It lies somewhere above his respect for indie music, below his love for Guinness and Krzysztof Kieslowski films’Wed May 11 2016 - 12:40
Missing persons: out of sight, but not out of mindHenrietta McKervey on the preoccupations at the heart of her novel, The Heart of Everything – the disappeared, ageing, dementia and identities within familiesWed May 04 2016 - 14:08
Henrietta McKervey: books can be bridges between childhood and adulthoodThough I will never begrudge a minute I have spent in the company of PG Wodehouse, I do envy the book bridges that now exist and will help guide my children towards adulthoodThu Mar 03 2016 - 06:26
Travelling in the wake of the Shipping Forecast newsThe winner of the annual Maeve Binchy Travel Award writes about her experience of visiting all 31 of the lighthouses that feature on the BBC shipping forecastSat May 23 2015 - 07:30
When writing historical fiction, nothing beats the first draft of history for researchWith her debut novel What Becomes of Us exploring 1916 through the lens of 1960s Ireland, Henrietta McKervey learnt how to use historical detail to good effect in fictionThu Apr 02 2015 - 08:00