Authors Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen have opened up about the final book in the Oh My God What A Complete Aisling series — and what they reckon it is about Aisling that readers love so much.
Aisling Ever After, published by Gill Books, is the fifth instalment in the series — and picks up with Aisling still in New York, and reeling from a surprise arrival from her past.
“So, there is a certain amount of relief in completing that. And when we were writing the book — until we handed it in and got feedback from our editors — we weren’t really sure how it would be perceived. “Everyone’s laughed and cried, which is what we always want — I’m just excited to have it out in the world now. I can’t wait for more people to read it, then maybe discover the back catalogue and get back into the books. It’s really exciting.”
“And I guess it’s kind of zeitgeist-y. We’ve captured a particular time in Irish history and culture. “All books, storylines and plots have to have conflict. But there’s no nastiness in our books. People find them heartwarming — people love to laugh and cry, so we always strive for a bit of crying while laughing. And they’re just good books.”
“I think we’re happy with where it is now. That’s not to say it isn’t the complete end of the BGB universe. I feel like in the back of our minds, it’s like, ‘maybe there will be something more in the future’. But that’s as far as the conversations have gone, really. Sarah told how the project is currently a TV series based on the first book, which they are working on at the moment — as the pair shared whether they’ve got a dream cast to take on the characters.
“Initially, I felt a bit like, ‘oh god, does this mean that we failed at screenwriting?’ When they suggested it, they were coming up with reasons why this is a good thing — it would involve spending so much more time with the characters, and we had to lose so much to try and get it to that 90 minutes.
“To play Aisling herself, we’ve always maintained that we’d love to find Aisling rather than kind of pick and existing star and try and turn her into Aisling. That’s not to say that the dream Aisling isn’t somebody who’s already a star, but we’d love to find her and go, ‘that’s our Aisling’.
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