Sarah Corbett Lynch on why the Martens aren’t worth her anger: ‘They’ve had so much control over my life that they don’t deserve it’

Sarah Corbett Lynch is in college, in Mary Immaculate in Limerick, and she’s on a break between lectures when we speak. She’s in first year of English and drama. Her teachers all expect her to be brilliant at essays, says the 19-year-old, adding that she’s good at writing what she knows. After all, she has already written two bestsellers – Noodle Loses Dad when she was 13, and this year’s A Time for Truth.