Novelist & short story writer; occasional journalist; Europhile; cinephile; New York-born Irish citizen residing in France; wife of John Montaguehttps://bsky.app/profile/elizabethwm.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/elizabethwm.bsky.social/post/3muwlqgnkkc2jOn the telly (Ireland AM) for At the Villa Celeste, with Sophie07 Sep 2026 13:16 +0000at://did:plc:3csjww7ek2isqbt4d3cmsxko/app.bsky.feed.post/3muwlqgnkkc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/elizabethwm.bsky.social/post/3murihniqg227Today’s Irish Times.05 Sep 2026 12:34 +0000at://did:plc:3csjww7ek2isqbt4d3cmsxko/app.bsky.feed.post/3murihniqg227https://bsky.app/profile/elizabethwm.bsky.social/post/3muriggze4k27The Irish Mail commissioned an essay, and I decided to write about the heat…05 Sep 2026 12:33 +0000at://did:plc:3csjww7ek2isqbt4d3cmsxko/app.bsky.feed.post/3muriggze4k27https://bsky.app/profile/elizabethwm.bsky.social/post/3mu7kd5vub22hSophie absorbed in my reading at Hodges Figgis, or else possibly dreaming of chicken.29 Aug 2026 09:19 +0000at://did:plc:3csjww7ek2isqbt4d3cmsxko/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu7kd5vub22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/elizabethwm.bsky.social/post/3mu7k6gbqok2hChristine Dwyer Hickey introducing my novel in Hodges Figgis29 Aug 2026 09:17 +0000at://did:plc:3csjww7ek2isqbt4d3cmsxko/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu7k6gbqok2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/elizabethwm.bsky.social/post/3mu7jyvbdws2hJohn Minihan, Enda Wyley, Sophie & me at the launch of my novel, At the Villa Celeste, in Hodges Figgis, Dublin29 Aug 2026 09:14 +0000at://did:plc:3csjww7ek2isqbt4d3cmsxko/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu7jyvbdws2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/elizabethwm.bsky.social/post/3mttpu4eoxs2qThursday 27 August…24 Aug 2026 16:26 +0000at://did:plc:3csjww7ek2isqbt4d3cmsxko/app.bsky.feed.post/3mttpu4eoxs2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/elizabethwm.bsky.social/post/3mrx34ryxak2eMy new novel, out in less than a month31 Jul 2026 13:36 +0000at://did:plc:3csjww7ek2isqbt4d3cmsxko/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrx34ryxak2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/elizabethwm.bsky.social/post/3mr2tsuafr22fJKR is so prurient. What a dirty mind! That upskirting episode shows how salacious & dangerous she is. No one is hurting HER but SHE is on a rampage.20 Jul 2026 08:10 +0000at://did:plc:3csjww7ek2isqbt4d3cmsxko/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr2tsuafr22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/elizabethwm.bsky.social/post/3mqmwvispyc2m14 juillet in Nice. 10 years on. 2016 was so rotten. Here, a lorry crushed almost 100 people to death. That supreme shitbag-out-of-hell was elected US president. The wise people of the UK chose Brexit. My great poet husband died. In any case Bastille Day is no holiday in Nice.14 Jul 2026 19:28 +0000at://did:plc:3csjww7ek2isqbt4d3cmsxko/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqmwvispyc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/elizabethwm.bsky.social/post/3mnzazp7lls2xhttps://www.instagram.com/p/DZa4qEbDOsG/?img_index=1111 Jun 2026 12:46 +0000at://did:plc:3csjww7ek2isqbt4d3cmsxko/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnzazp7lls2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/elizabethwm.bsky.social/post/3mklgjbpb322qA mean thing to say, but Nigel does have a frog face. And Trump’s mouth does resemble an anus. And Vance does look like a pumpkin with eyeliner. School playground observations, yes, but what can we do but observe?28 Apr 2026 20:31 +0000at://did:plc:3csjww7ek2isqbt4d3cmsxko/app.bsky.feed.post/3mklgjbpb322qhttps://bsky.app/profile/elizabethwm.bsky.social/post/3mjp37knzjk2cThe advance copies of my new novel, ‘At the Villa Celeste’, have just arrived from the publisher. Sophie is preparing to devour the book. @booksky.bsky.social17 Apr 2026 13:54 +0000at://did:plc:3csjww7ek2isqbt4d3cmsxko/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjp37knzjk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/elizabethwm.bsky.social/post/3mjeft7mm4k2mWe’ve been pummelled by nightmarish news for so long that I find the Hungarian victory at once exhilarating and exhausting. I think we are punch-drunk.13 Apr 2026 08:05 +0000at://did:plc:3csjww7ek2isqbt4d3cmsxko/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjeft7mm4k2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/elizabethwm.bsky.social/post/3mj7ctbopns2oRumours have been ‘calculating’ about me. I have never been ‘convinced’ of a crime. Poor command of English? Or is it her unconscious glinting through the loose fabric of her words?11 Apr 2026 07:28 +0000at://did:plc:3csjww7ek2isqbt4d3cmsxko/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj7ctbopns2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/elizabethwm.bsky.social/post/3mi6t4kqebs2zChihuahua or Easter Bunny?29 Mar 2026 09:22 +0000at://did:plc:3csjww7ek2isqbt4d3cmsxko/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi6t4kqebs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/elizabethwm.bsky.social/post/3mhqh6euols24Sophie is serene in her cocoon.23 Mar 2026 16:11 +0000at://did:plc:3csjww7ek2isqbt4d3cmsxko/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhqh6euols24https://bsky.app/profile/elizabethwm.bsky.social/post/3mhnedsxskc2uMore heartening news from across the Atlantic. Trump’s response to Mueller’s death was so mature, compassionate and statesmanlike: ‘Good. I’m glad he’s dead’.22 Mar 2026 10:42 +0000at://did:plc:3csjww7ek2isqbt4d3cmsxko/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhnedsxskc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/elizabethwm.bsky.social/post/3mfymsfsenc23It’s Trump’s exuberance that sickens me most. He loves standing at a podium in his baseball cap & threatening ‘certain death’. He’s having fun.01 Mar 2026 11:22 +0000at://did:plc:3csjww7ek2isqbt4d3cmsxko/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfymsfsenc23https://bsky.app/profile/elizabethwm.bsky.social/post/3mfcqx7e5ns2kAnother Strike on Iran Will Only Dig the Hole Deeper https://open.substack.com/pub/barry119/p/another-strike-on-iran-will-only?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email20 Feb 2026 18:38 +0000at://did:plc:3csjww7ek2isqbt4d3cmsxko/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfcqx7e5ns2khttps://bsky.app/profile/elizabethwm.bsky.social/post/3mduo4tzf322kToday is James Joyce’s birthday. It is also the 5th birthday of Sophie Cappuccino Montague.02 Feb 2026 10:45 +0000at://did:plc:3csjww7ek2isqbt4d3cmsxko/app.bsky.feed.post/3mduo4tzf322khttps://bsky.app/profile/elizabethwm.bsky.social/post/3mdqt6ds6cs2jSophie at the Negresco in the arms of this splendid person for her birthday.31 Jan 2026 22:05 +0000at://did:plc:3csjww7ek2isqbt4d3cmsxko/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdqt6ds6cs2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/elizabethwm.bsky.social/post/3mcch6rspnk24To distract myself from the nightmarish state of things I’ve been pondering culinary mysteries. Why is it impossible to scramble 1 egg? 1 boiled egg is lovely but 1 scrambled? Also why does spinach disappear? Broccoli doesn’t. Yet spinach vanishes to nothing.13 Jan 2026 11:28 +0000at://did:plc:3csjww7ek2isqbt4d3cmsxko/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcch6rspnk24https://bsky.app/profile/elizabethwm.bsky.social/post/3mbtjpbqwr22oSo I’m thinking of Jung and the Animus, the unalloyed masculine principle, a desire for war & conquest; a contempt for peace. A woman-beating drunk in charge of ‘War’, a rapist racist thug as president. Utter Animus, untempered.07 Jan 2026 13:03 +0000at://did:plc:3csjww7ek2isqbt4d3cmsxko/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbtjpbqwr22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/elizabethwm.bsky.social/post/3ma425uovqs2jTrump’s indecent vicious self-glorifying comment on the Reiners’s deaths shows such depravity that it should be flooding the news. But the conventional media ignore it except for one glancing mention on the BBC.16 Dec 2025 11:28 +0000at://did:plc:3csjww7ek2isqbt4d3cmsxko/app.bsky.feed.post/3ma425uovqs2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/elizabethwm.bsky.social/post/3m73k7kkmvc2uBefore bath. After bath.03 Dec 2025 13:18 +0000at://did:plc:3csjww7ek2isqbt4d3cmsxko/app.bsky.feed.post/3m73k7kkmvc2u