The Art of Reading is a monthly book club hosted by Colm Tóibín, the Laureate for Irish Fiction.
This episode features Colm in conversation with Una Mannion about The Ante Room by Kate O'Brien - watch their illuminating conversation above.
Each month, the Laureate meets a different library book club to discuss a book by an Irish writer, highlighting outstanding Irish writing and celebrating the reader and book clubs.
The selected titles include new work by contemporary Irish writers as well as work from the past that the Laureate wishes to bring to a new generation of readers.
Speaking of the book, Colm said: "This novel is written with great intensity, being set over a time period of three days in which the focus is on the entire life of a single family, all the secrets and treacheries coming into the open. Time and character are dealt with in this book with sharp insight, masterful precision."
The Art of Reading Book Club is an initiative of the Arts Council and the Laureate for Irish Fiction, in partnership with Libraries Ireland. Find out more here.
