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Caroline O’Donoghue: ‘I shouldn’t believe in love at first sight’

Love Lives

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How to Navigate Reality in Fiction

Roxanne Jones: The central relationship in the Rachel and St. Rian is this platonic friendship between a straight woman and a gay man. And I know you kind of drew on some of your own experiences. So how do you go about navigating that while also still pulling from real things that have happened? "I don't think the Rachel incident is any more or less autobiographical than any of the five novels I wrote previously," she says.

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