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"My heart was thumping..." Colum McCann on the art of fictionalising real living people, and how they react.
McCann discusses his 2013 novel TransAtlantic which tells the intertwined stories of Alcock and Brown, the first non-stop transatlantic fliers in 1919, and the story of the Irish peace process as negotiated by Senator George Mitchell in 1998.
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