The author on the power of folktales, being inspired by Ulysses – and the book that every woman should read My earliest reading memory The summer my middle sister was born, my mum and I would walk to the shops at Cherryvalley, in east Belfast, to do her messages, and she’d buy me the latest issue...
Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jul/24/lucy-caldwell-even-your-text-messages-fizz-after-reading-james-joyce)