Lisa Harding is a writer, actress, playwright. She received an MPhil in creative writing from Trinity College Dublin in 2014. Her short stories have been published in the Dublin Review, the Bath Short Story Anthology, HeadStuff, and Winter Papers. Her first novel, Harvesting, won the 2018 Kate O'Brien Award and was shortlisted for an Irish Book Award and the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award.
Harding's new novel is Bright Burning Things.
At Lit Hub the author tagged six favorite books featuring conflicted, contrary, and contradictory characters, including:
Elizabeth Strout, Olive KitteridgeRead about another entry on the list.
What a spiky, flawed, unlikeable yet loveable, conflicted character Elizabeth Strout has created in her unforgettable protagonist:Olive Kitteridge, a retired school teacher and mother in Maine. She demonstrates wilful cruelty with her husband, son and daughter-in-law, yet is capable of talking down a former student from the act of suicide. She also approaches a young girl who has anorexia with tenderness and rare insight. Her own heart is suffering, and she can be both merciless and tender. A rare creation.
Olive Kitteridge is among Genevieve Plunkett's seven books about the search for intimacy, Emma Duffy-Comparone’s seven darkly humorous titles about relationships, Susie Yang's six titles featuring dark anti-heroines, Sara Collins's six favorite bad women in fiction, Laura Barnett's ten top unconventional love stories, and Sophie Ward's six best books.
--Marshal Zeringue
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