Seán Hewitt & Michael Amherst

Seán Hewitt and Michael Amherst share their powerful new coming-of-age novels with John Self in this Festival conversation.

With his first foray into fiction, awardwinning poet and memoirist Seán Hewitt has created a tender comingof-age story. Open, Heaven is told in gorgeous prose, and traces a summer of awakening between two boys in rural Ireland.

Michael Amherst’s debut novel The Boyhood of Cain is a poignant story about a boy on the precipice of adulthood, struggling to understand how he might give and deserve love.