What’s it like to write a novel following a Booker Prize nomination? When you’re Elaine Feeney, author of the multi-award-winning How To Build A Boat, and now Let Me Go Mad In My Own Way, it’s mostly inconsequential. The number of media interviews has shot up, she says. And, in fact, they’re something she thought she would be better at by now. “You know, with the Booker thing,” she smiles and trails off, wincing in her voice, at her kitchen table in a sunlit Athenry, Co Galway. Nearly 200 books are stacked haphazardly behind her, including Why Poetry by Matthew Zapruder and several Dickens classics: Great Expectations, A Tale…

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