Time Present and Time Past
Deirdre Madden
2013 • Faber & Faber
The jacket photo is a very early colour photograph, an autochrome, taken in 1907. It’s a real photo, not a black and white photo that has been retouched. Like Fintan, the main character in the novel, I became fascinated with these photographs, and how they appear to make the past more accessible to us. It was also a particularly beautiful process. The images are soft but clear, and the colours have a luminous quality.
— Deirdre Madden
Time Present and Time Past
Deirdre Madden
2013 • Faber & Faber
The jacket photo is a very early colour photograph, an autochrome, taken in 1907. It’s a real photo, not a black and white photo that has been retouched. Like Fintan, the main character in the novel, I became fascinated with these photographs, and how they appear to make the past more accessible to us. It was also a particularly beautiful process. The images are soft but clear, and the colours have a luminous quality.
— Deirdre Madden
Description
Set in the middle-class suburbs of contemporary Dublin at the height of the Celtic Tiger, Time Present and Time Past is Antrim-born Deirdre Madden’s eighth novel for adults. Madden has also written two books for children.
Excerpts
Interviews
- Listowel Writers' Week: 'Deirdre Madden on Time and Early Colour Photography'
- The Irish Times: 'Deirdre Madden on Space and Time'
- Culture Northern Ireland: 'Author Deirdre Madden Releases Time Past and Time Presesnt'
- The Irish Post: '"I Find Everything Interesting," says Deirdre Madden'
- The Guardian: Deirdre Madden - 'The Troubles are Almost Always in my Work at Some Level'
- The Financial Times: Q&A with Deirdre Madden
Prizes & Awards
Reviews
- Helen Dunmore, The Guardian
- Adam O'Riordan, The Telegraph
- Andrea Mullaney, The Scotsman
- Hannah Rosefield, The Observer
- Adam Lively, The Sunday Times
- David Evans, The Financial Times
- Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, The Irish Times
- The New Yorker
- Kirkus
Audio
Video
- Faber and Faber: Deirdre Madden on her novel Time Present and Time Past
- librairie mollat: Deirdre Madden at the 2014 Franco-Irish Literary Festival
- Franco-Irish Literary Festival 2014: Changing Lives - Day 1, Part 1
- Franco-Irish Literary Festival 2014: Changing Lives - Day 1, Part 2
