[Reading Room] On Cosmology by Roísín O’Donnell

I’m often wary of modern Irish and British stories because they tend to be grim. In On Cosmology, by Roísín O’Donnell’s Hennesy/Irish Times prize-winning story for August 2015, a lecturer in astrophysics wonders about the ‘gooey, alien-like creature’ which may be growing inside her. So yes, it does deal with sex and issues of pregnancy […]