Special Guests: Memoir
Smarty Girl, Dublin Savage: Honor Molloy
Honor Molloy is a Brooklyn based author and playwright whose first novel, Smarty Girl – Dublin Savage is published on March 17th in print and as an audio book. Smarty Girl is a fascinating and brilliantly fictionalised account of Honor's tumultuous childhood in Dublin, where she was born and lived for the first eight years of her life.
Honor's parents are likely to be familiar to readers who were alive in the 1960’s as both were heavily involved in drama on stage, screen and radio. Her mother Yvonne Voight was a theatre director who moved from America to study at Trinity College, where she met Dublin actor John Molloy. They set up home in the city and had six children. Both worked tirelessly in theatre, radio and television – their stories representing the raucous Dublin of the time and the everyday lives of real people. It made for an animated home life and the Molloy children grew up surrounded by larger than life characters. Honor explains, “my childhood was theatrical. There were actors and singers and painters and producers and journalists in and out of our house”.
Melissa Moore: Shattered Silence
The decision to write a memoir may seem to some to be an easy one, but if you have had had a difficult or traumatic life, it can have huge and unexpected ramifications for those close to you, and for your own life.
Three years ago Melissa Moore was playing with her then six year old daughter in their back garden in Spokane, Washington, and as the swing came to rest, her daughter asked an innocent question that set off a chain of events that was to bring Melissa to national TV including the Dr. Phil and Oprah Winfrey shows, write a bestselling book and most importantly, confront her past. That question?
'Mommy, where's your daddy? Everybody has a daddy. Where's yours?'
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