There might be multiple story-lines in an author’s work but they’re not advertised. My debut novel, Clochán, is a coming-of-age adventure about children growing up during a time of monsters. Kevin, who is introduced at the age of reason, grows to become a young man of twenty-one. His friend Anty has two years on him which leads to confusion, misunderstanding and a modicum of distress in the later years. The name Anty, short for Anastasia, was common along Wexford’s mountains, but almost non-existent in the rest of Ireland during the early 1800s.