Wait, be patient, keep faith: an unlikely mantra for life | Alice O’Keeffe
In these turbulent times, we can all learn from novelist Anna Burns’s creative process for opening her mind
Sometimes, for us bookish types, a particular moment in time requires a particular author, as surely as a bout of winter flu requires paracetamol. So I was very glad to find myself, last Thursday – in that nervous/tragic/hopeful gap between voting and seeing the exit poll – at a talk by Anna Burns, the Man Booker prize-winning author of Milkman. I’ve been thinking about her perspective on life and art a lot this week, and it has been medicinal.
Burns’s message of persistence and patience has helped me get through a week of otherwise bitter disappointment