'It changed the direction of our lives': Dublin cellist Kate Hearne on moving family to Swedish Lapland

'It changed the direction of our lives': Dublin cellist Kate Hearne on moving family to Swedish Lapland

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Like the roll of a dice — what sent Dublin recorder player and Baroque cellist Kate Hearne to live 200km above the Arctic Circle with her husband, composer Fredrik Österling, and their two young sons. She tells Helen O’Callaghan about life in a place that sometimes feels 'like she has moved to the moon', about the beauty it has brought, the sense of adventure, and the feeling that anything is possible