Alight at Dalkey, where higgledy-piggledy streets lined with small boutiques, cafes and shops climb into the surroundings.

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Jeremy Davies, a book editor over at the nonprofit Dalkey Archive Press, says he averages about 55 hours of work per week.

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She had come to like being alone and often in the evenings went on her own to the cinema, and at weekends walked at Howth or by the sea at Dalkey.

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At Dalkey Archive Press, a publisher of fiction, poetry, and literary criticism, Davies says he expects a book editor at the Press to have a solid grounding in the traditions represented by the company.

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