On how the road to a changed life began with a single step - into a writers workshop. For Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen to The Cloths of Heaven by Mary O'Donnell above.

"Each year in early autumn, some people begin to re-plan the future.

The map of the self is laid out and scrutinised. In night schools, at universities and at the arts centres which speckle the country like small creative pulses, courses begin to fill up, hope and determination sharpen, and change seems possible..."

Listen to more from Sunday Miscellany here.