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As her first book Lazy City is published, Rachel Connolly talks about the “distinctive politics, history and geography” of Belfast, being lumped in with other Irish women writers, and making room for humour in her tale of grief

The writer’s debut book This Ragged Grace is a powerful tale of recovery from alcohol addiction, spanning continents and climates. Here, she talks about why “recovery is more interesting than addiction”