Cecelia Ahern: ‘I’m eager to get younger readers. I don’t want to become irrelevant’

The Dublin author has just published her 20th novel – hailed by some readers as a return to the romantic form of her bestselling debut. Along the way, she has worked with Nicole Kidman, learned to accept rejection, and to follow her own sense of ‘what if?’

Author Cecelia Ahern. Photo: Mark Condren

“I simply couldn’t do what you’re doing,” Cecelia Ahern tells me; by which she means write journalism or non-fiction. Lord knows she has tried, going so far as to get a journalism degree from Griffith College Dublin before she launched her novelist career.

“I just can’t. I’ve had 20 years of people asking me to write a piece for this [or that],” she says. “When I write, I’m not giving you just one opinion. Th

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