Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Michele Forbes is an award-winning theatre, television and film actress. Her first novel, Ghost Moth, was published in 2013 to great critical acclaim and Forbes was shortlisted for Newcomer of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. She lives in Dalkey, Dublin. www.micheleforbesauthor.com
Her new novel, Edith & Oliver, now out in paperback, is set in the early 20th century and tells the story of a marriage and its decline set against the parallel decline of the music hall where Edith is a pianist and Oliver an illusionist.
Exclusively for Foyles, Frances Gertler talked to Michele about the decliine of the music hall, how families often get caught in repeating patterns of behaviour and how the community spirit she describes in her novel has lived on into the 21st century.
