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Jessie ThompsonCaroline O’Donoghue: ‘My tombstone will say: for fans of Sally Rooney’
The Irish author and ‘Sentimental Garbage’ podcaster talks to Jessie Thompson about the impact of abortion laws, being compared to the ‘Normal People’ writer, and why you don’t need to go to New York or London to ‘have a renaissance of the soul’