"I grew up in a single-income, working-class family. Although money was definitely tight, my parents always seemed to be able to find enough to invest in our education and to give my siblings and I access to the arts, with music, drama and pottery lessons and plenty of books. I've adopted that with my own children and they know I'm a soft touch whenever we're in a bookshop."
"When the year was up, the redundancy money had dwindled to nothing, and I had no new job on the horizon. The panic did start to set in, and, for a while, there was a lot of juggling involved when it came to paying the bills. Thankfully some freelance work started to trickle in and I was able to build from there."
Sadhbh Devlin is the only person in the 20-year history of the awards to have an Irish-language book shortlisted in the children's category. She lives in Bray with her husband Mark and twin daughters Lile and Sábha. She grew up in a single-income, working-class family where parents invested in education and the arts. She took a year off after redundancy in 2014, exhausted redundancy funds, and faced bill-paying pressure before freelance work returned. She is frugal, spends mostly on books, received an Arts Council literature bursary that boosted finances and creative confidence, and considers her home her best investment. Vote at irishbookawards.ie/vote for the November 27 awards.
Read at Irish Independent
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