A writer, a man I loved and he loved me and we got married and it was great and is still great. He believed I could do anything, just as my parents had believed all those years ago, and I started to write fiction and that took off fine. And he loved Ireland, and the fax was invented so we writers could live anywhere we liked, instead of living in London near publishers.

On Gordon Snell, her husband. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2012/0731/1224321158054.html