Georgina Hambleton
Christy Brown - the life that inspired My Left Foot
Meet The Author
Georgina Louise Hambleton was born in Derby, England and has lived in several countries - England, Ireland and America. She studied literature in Ireland where she read a pure English degree at University College Dublin (the alma mater of James Joyce), she then read a Masters in Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama, and a Masters in Creative writing at Queen University in Belfast.She has interviewed many authors, actors, musicians and directors including: Booker Prize Winner John Banville, Oscar winner Jim Sheridan, Bafta nominee Adrian Dunbar and the Dubliner's lead singer Ronnie Drew.
It started in a taxi.
Georgina Hambleton struck up a conversation with a cab driver about Christy Brown, and he instructed her to look beyond the film, My Left Foot, and examine Brown's writings, namely the novel Down All The Days, described as the most important Irish novel since Ulysses, yet not widely available in Irish book shops. Hambleton's fascination with Brown began a half decade-long passion of Brown's work, which became the subject of her MA thesis in UCD and eventually a book on the artist, poet and author's life Christy Brown: The Life that Inspired 'My Left Foot'.