In Elif Shafak’s weekly column in the New Statesman, she describes her interview with Seán Rocks during the Ennis Book Club Fesival as “one of the most inspiring events I have done.” We felt a great connection during the festival and, it seems, so did she. “I walk back on the streets of Ennis under drizzling rain. Light pours out from the pubs, with sounds of laughter and singing in the background, and I feel, under this vast sky, how profoundly connected we all are, fellow human beings, beyond all national borders and imaginary tribes.”

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