[ About The Hotel Guest ] Kit’s summer job at the Abbaye de Saint Maurice was supposed to be a clean slate – until she fell in with ‘the Olympians’, a clique of wealthy young academics staying nearby. Kit, desperate to fit in, was drawn to them like a moth to a flame. Then came…
On this week’s Write Smarter Blog, I am delighted to introduce you all to my guest, journalist and award winning short story writer Kate Durrant. A regular contributor to RTÉ Radio One and BBC Radio Two, Kate is also a columnist with Irish County Living within The Farmers Journal. Her fiction and creative non-fiction has been…
[ About The Woman in The Water ] At the heart of the classic novel Rebecca lies a mystery … Pearl Day has always lived in the background – companion to her childhood friend, the dazzling and unpredictable Lady Eleanor Nicholson. Their bond was forged at Alderleigh, Eleanor’s crumbling country estate, but now they share a sleek…
‘Telling the truth could destroy something – or someone.’ [ About Tell The Truth ] A woman is accused of murdering her husband. Twelve jurors must decide her fate. Marion McMahon lies in her cell, guarding a secret that could set her free. But she will never tell. She is safer on the inside. Stephanie…
[ About Yesteryear ] ‘My name is Natalie Heller Mills, and I was perfect at being alive…’ Natalie lives a traditional lifestyle – and has the social media accounts to prove it. Her charming farmhouse on her working ranch is artfully cluttered, her husband is a handsome cowboy, her homemade sourdough boules are each more…
‘An unforgettable story of two families riven by one great secret’ [ About Everything that is Beautiful ] For Niamh Ryan, the Foleys are family. Her childhood flew by on their farm, playing with her best friend Peter and his sister Kate – all the while being doted on by their mother Helen and coached…
On this week’s Write Smarter Blog, I am delighted to introduce you all to my guest, USA Today bestselling Irish author, Felicity Hayes-McCoy. Born and educated in Dublin, Felicity built a successful London-based career, as an actor and voice-artist, and as a scriptwriter in theatre, music theatre, radio, TV, and digital media. She began writing…
The novel for a displaced generation [ About Tangerinn ] Mina is thirty years old and leads a life in London built with great care and little spontaneity, in a frantic attempt to finally feel “right”. One evening she receives a phone call from her mother: her father has died. Mina returns home for the…
Some of you may recall that I used to run a weekly series a few years back called Irish Writers Wednesday, featuring, as the title suggests, a wonderful selection of writers who were all very generous with their words and advice. A few weeks back I put out a call for something similar but, this…
‘A stunning new novel about adultery, first love and other family secrets…’– Lake Effect (Publishers Quote) [ About Lake Effect ] It’s 1977 and an air of restlessness has settled on the residents of Cambridge Road in Rochester, New York. When Nina Larkin is given a copy of The Joy of Sex by her newly divorced friend,…