Life Saving
Josephine Hart, author of the bestselling novel Damage, had what she called ''a long love affair'' with poetry. It was an affair that started as a child and lasted until her untimely death at the age of sixty-nine in 2011. She said ''I was a word child'' growing up in Ireland ''a country of word children where life was language before it was anything else''. As a teenager and later she found the...
Josephine Hart, author of the bestselling novel Damage, had what she called ''a long love affair'' with poetry. It was an affair that started as a child and lasted until her untimely death at the age of sixty-nine in 2011. She said ''I was a word child'' growing up in Ireland ''a country of word children where life was language before it was anything else''. As a teenager and later she found the...
