Sinéad Crowley

Ten words to sum up your working life to date ...

Interesting, busy, intense, fulfilling, varied. Now with added books, lucky me!

Nine things you can see from where you're sitting ...

A clothes horse. Two scooters. A bookcase. A tub of loom bands. A toy VW van. A Santa, that didn’t make it back to the attic after Christmas. A cup of tea. My phone.

Eight minutes to prepare a meal. What's it going to be ?

A cup of tea for my husband while he cooks.

Seven people you'd like to go for a drink with ...

My husband, because date nights are few and far between with two small children
Any of my close female friends – see answer one!
Bono
Maeve Binchy (if only)
Michael Fassbender, to discuss our shared Kerry heritage, of course
Any of a number of wonderful female crime writers
Myself, because a book and a glass of red wine is a great combination

Six things you can't live without ...

Books
Libraries
Milky coffee
Sleep – although I’ve been testing the limits of that one recently
My phone
Birkenstock sandals

Five favourite words ...

Albeit
Glug
Pillowy
Spicy
Rasher

Four places you'd run away to ...

Natchitoches Louisiana
West Kerry
New York
Norway

Three books you've bought recently ...

A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
A Song of Shadows by John Connolly
A Horrid Henry compendium for the five-year-old

Two things that make you rant ...

Able-bodied people parking in disabled spaces
The phrase ‘reach out’ (unless the person is actually hanging off a cliff and needs to be rescued)

One thing you'd tell your teenage self ...

Hold onto those multi-coloured velvet Doc Martens. Your 41-year-old self would love to wear them again.