The late Leland Bardwell discusses her early childhood spent in India with her Irish parents. The family returned to Ireland when she was 2 years old and it was here that she would later carve a career as a novelist and poet. Bardwell outlines her trajectory from first publication for Arena Magazine in the ‘60s, encounters with her peers Patrick Kavanagh and Flann O’Brien, to publishing Girl on a Bicycle in 1977. Bardwell also expresses her interest in marginalized sections of society and the suppression of young women in Ireland.