Life
1975- ; b. Dublin; dg. John Harte and Celia de Fréine; debut novel First
Time (1996), published while still a student at UCD student, concerns
Cassandra, school-girl, at primary and secondary school, a misfit who
feels herself at odds with classmates, and befriends an under-achieving
girl called Emma but encounters disaster when Paul (Emma’s boyfriend)
falls for her; Losing It (1999), in which Merle becomes obsessed
with learning why her sister Corinne, visiting from London, tries to kill
herself; also Wild Geese (2003); lives in Dublin.
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Works
First Time (London: Phoenix House 1996), 160pp.; Losing It
(Dublin: Phoenix House 1999), 237pp.; Wild Geese (London: Weidenfeld
& Nicholson 2003), 224pp.
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Criticism
Interview, Books Ireland (April 1996), p.81.
John Dunne, Books Ireland (May 1996), p.129.
Sue Leonard, Books Ireland (Sept. 1999).
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)