Pulling on the Heart Strings

Ella Griffin has become the latest star writer in Irish women’s fiction. I caught up with the advertising executive in the Radisson Hotel in Dublin to discuss her breakthrough debut novel Postcards from the Heart.

Photograph by Brian Meade

Postcards from the Heart contains everything that’s right about good women’s romantic fiction and is a very impressive debut. At the heart of the book are two very different couples, Saffy and Greg and Conor and Jess and all of the people connected to them play vital parts in the story. The novel is in equal parts hilarious, gripping, a little bit weepy, and always engaging.