The much heralded debut collection from Amsterdam-based American short story writer Kate Doyle has been attracting a lot of positive attention. Kate captures precisely that time of life when so many young women are caught in between, pre-occupied by nostalgia for past relationships – with friends, roommates, siblings – while trying to move forward into an uncertain future. Edel Coffey in the Irish Times wrote of I Meant it Once … ‘Quietly devastating… Doyle is an unmistakably individual and exciting new voice.’ Kate will be in conversation with Edel Coffey.