Nuala O'Faolain (Oh-FWAY-lawn) made a splash a couple of years back with her memoir "Are You Somebody?" The rave reviews and her regular Irish Times column, have actually made her somebody, in her native Ireland and here. Her new book, "My Dream of You," is a novel within a novel and it's not without its parallels to her own life, and Irish history. Its protagonist, Kathleen de Burca is an Irish travel writer based in London. She has kept her life "even and dry" for two decades, living in a London basement when she's not globetrotting. But after a friend dies, she heads back to Ireland and becomes obsessed by a centuries old scandal. O'Faolain told Minnesota Public Radio's Tom Crann she got the idea for the story as a result of a chance meeting during one of her own travels: