Deirdre Madden writes Irish literary fiction about family, art, memory and lives marked quietly but permanently by political conflict. One by One in the Darkness follows three sisters in Northern Ireland as the family prepares for a new baby and remembers the violence that shaped their past. Molly Fox’s Birthday follows a playwright spending a day in a friend’s Dublin home, using the absence of the actress Molly to reflect on identity, performance and friendship. Nothing Is Black and Time Present and Time Past similarly examine families through small shifts in memory rather than dramatic revelation. Madden’s prose is restrained and attentive to ordinary detail, placing her within contemporary Irish fiction and character-led novels about art, family and the long aftermath of the Troubles. Read more Less
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