A post shared by Colm O’Regan (@colmoreganwriter) on Jul 31, 2020 at 12:51pm PDTYes, the books are meant to be funny and they very much are but happily the joke at Ann’s expense.‘I tend to base the characters not so much on people I know but the glimpses I catch in everyday life —someone walking past me in the supermarket making a remark to somebody else or the way someone is walking along the road with an eyebrow raised or the way someone is dressed,’ Colm says. ‘And I try and piece them together so that Ann is an amalgamation of a few people.
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