At the Villa Celeste with Elizabeth Wassell Montague

Send us Fan MailOn today’s show we go to Hodges Figgis in Dublin’s Dawson Street to talk to Elizabeth Wassell Montague about her new novel At the Villa Celeste which she launched at the bookshop recently. The novel is a haunting story of ‎longing, memory, and the fragile architecture of identity. When Clementine Dove begins to ‎fall apart  under the weight of familial love and unspoken trauma, she finds herself turning to France for a kind of salvation. In Paris and along the  Côte d'Azur, ‎past and present collide as two generations of women navigate desire, restraint and the hunger to ‎be truly seen. The launch was introduced by novelist and friend of Books for Breakfast Christine Dwyer Hickey so you’ll hear introduction first, followed by our interview with Elizabeth. This episode is supported by a Project Award from the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon. Intro/outro music: Colm Mac Con Iomaire, 'Thou Shalt Not Carry' from The Hare's Corner, 2008, with thanks to Colm for permission to use it. Logo designed by Freya Sirr.Support the show