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First of all: Irish writers on their debut novels coming out in 2021 From Louise Nealon’s coming-of-age tale to Una Mannion’s American nightmare Sat, Jan 30, 2021, 06:00 Niamh Donnelly Louise Nealon lives on a dairy farm in Kildare with her family. Snowflake (Manilla, May) is a coming-of-age tale about a young woman who struggles to cope when she moves away from her family farm and steps into life in Trinity College Dublin. What was the hardest thing about writing Snowflake? The thought of sitting down to write is not very appealing to me, which is unfortunate, as well as embarrassing, for a person who calls herself a writer. When I was working on Snowflake, I had to constantly confront my own insecurities. Every day without fail, my inner critic would remind me that I couldn’t string a sentence together. The moment I finished ....