Interview with Megan Wynne, Author of The Spirit of Loughmoe Abbey
Welcome to Smack Dab, Megan! Please tell us about The Spirit of Loughmoe Abbey. Inspired by the most hated girl in Enid Blyton’s Malory Towers Series, Gwen fails at boarding school until she befriends a ghost. You mention having ADHD in your biography. How did your own experiences influence Gwen's feelings of being different and struggling in traditional academic settings? My own feelings and experiences of having undiagnosed ADHD were a huge influence on how I wrote Gwen’s experiences of school. I found secondary school muddling, scary and boring. I was anxious much of the time because of how huge I perceived the work load to be. I remember not being able to sleep because I was so worried about having to complete a project. All my classmates boasted about how many pages they’d written and I worried that I couldn’t do it. I didn’t know I had ADHD when I was twelve years old (I only found out two years ago at the age of 53!), and it was a huge help for me to recei...
