When the mission goes wrong and forces from her past try to destroy her, Aria faces challenges that her idyllic life hasn’t prepared her for. But having arrived, she quickly begins to question their task. So, she’s shocked to discover she has human DNA.Īria and her dad are dispatched to Earth to release a virus that will wipe out humanity. Aria learns from a young age that humans are destructive and stupid.
Faraway Earth is their laboratory and humans are their lab rats. Its residents have learned to defeat diseases and are all about harmonious living. It follows a young teenager, Aria, who’s been raised on a distant planet, Terros, where life is pretty perfect. And her latest novel, The Girl Who Fell to Earth, published by Little Island, is full of such moments. Patricia prefers writing “speculative fiction”, stories that offer her young readers that ‘what if’ moment. The award-winning children’s author and Ireland’s newly-appointed Laureate na nÓg laughs again. “I live in my head, and I’d find it hard to write totally realistic fiction, To do that, you have to be observant and tuned into the minute.” “It came as awful shock when I learned that these lovely sheep and cattle, so well-minded, were all eventually going to be killed and eaten,” she says with a laugh.ĭecades on, Patricia still recalls that lesson in reality – and it’s why she veers away from writing realistic books. She was deeply impressed by how kind he was to the livestock in his care.
As a child, author Patricia Forde loved visiting her uncle’s farm just south of Gort, near Crusheen in County Clare.
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