Author Fionola Meredith with her debut novel The Stamp of Beauty (Jonathan McCambridge/PA) A Belfast writer has told how the chance discovery of a book of photographs in Queen’s University about the 1936 Berlin Olympics led to the concept of her debut novel. Set in post-Troubles Belfast, The Stamp Of Beauty by Fionola Meredith tells the story of a young married woman who begins an intense affair with an older man as a way of escaping her manipulative mother. Despite being very much a Northern Ireland novel, Ms Meredith explained how the idea for the work had an unlikely origin...
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