Ruth McKee
@ruthmckee
Debut novel, Wild Iris (Dedalus) "...filled with luminous detail and a voice that is tender, intimate and pitch perfect."—Catherine Dunne. ruthmckee.org
'The signature tone of all this is a self-awareness turned in towards loneliness and self-doubt, which echoes with the west coast fictions of Dermot Healy.' I was so thankful for this sensitive, beautiful review of Wild Iris by Nicholas Allen in The Irish Times ❤️ www.irishtimes.com/.../wild-iri...
It was such an honour to be in the Belfast Telegraph talking about Wild Iris—a paper I remember being delivered when I was little. Sometimes people assume it was easy for me to get published—that's not the story at all. Thanks to Áine Toner ❤️ www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/.../a/153146...
I'm not really here anymore, but just to say that Wild Iris (Dedalus) launches at Hodges Figgis, Dublin, on 19 May, everyone is welcome ❤️
I love gables and chimneys...get a good sonder-y vibe off them, the thought of hearths through generations. Throw in a bit of climate melancholy and rain soused stone...
It was really nice to see a little flurry of support yesterday, so I'm tentatively dipping toe back in social waters. Bear says hello. Bear was digging in seaweed this morning, which is one of his favourite things to do 🐕
Very grateful to Madeleine Keane and The Irish Independent for including Wild Iris in their list of books to look out for in 2026 📕❤️📕 www.independent.ie/entertainmen...
His Granda Jack would be impressed...Reuben's first crop of tomatoes (grown from a supermarket tomato seed) ❤️
I've never thought of the Golden Fleece as anything more than a passive thing, an object—until I read the story of Theophane, the mother of the golden ram (taken as a young girl by Poseidon, turned into a ewe, then raped by him as a ram) in Natalie Haynes' new book.
Beautiful book post this week ❤️ Thank you @jesstraynor.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
Youngest growing tomatoes on his windowsill, channelling his late Granda Jack 🍅
Truly beautiful book post today. 'This edition of Seamus Heaney’s seminal fourth collection North, reproduced in its elegant first setting and in its original jacket, marks fifty years since first publication in 1975.' This is a special one. Thank you @faberbooks.bsky.social
Lego sunflowers & a new writing notebook with Bear ❤️ Happy Mother’s Day 🌸
An exquisite new novel by Adrian Duncan—beautiful, artful, dreamy, clever. @serpents-tail.bsky.social