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Claudia Carroll (born c. 1969) is an Irish author and actress. She has been a regular on the
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soap opera
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Life and work

Born in
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where she still lives, Carroll was educated in
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, the College of Music in Dublin and of the
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. She plays the character of Nicola Prendergast on the Irish TV soap ''
Fair City ''Fair City'' is an Irish television soap opera which has been broadcast on RTÉ One since 1989. Produced by the public service broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), it first aired on Monday, 18 September 1989. It has won several award ...
'' appearing in the role for fourteen years. While she was working Carroll was also writing her first novel in her dressing room. That book was published in 2004. Eventually she left the show in 2007 and focused on her writing although she has made guest appearances of her character.


Bibliography


Novels

* ''He Loves Me Not...He Loves Me'' 2004 * ''Remind Me Again Why I Need A Man'' 2005 * ''The Last Of The Great Romantics'' 2005 * ''I Never Fancied Him Anyway'' 2007 * ''Do you want to know a secret'' 2008 * ''If This is Paradise, I Want My Money Back'' 2009 * ''Personally I Blame My Fairy Godmother'' 2010 * ''Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?'' 2011 * ''A Very Accidental Love Story'' 2012 * ''Me and You'' 2013 * ''Love Me or Leave Me'' 2014 * ''Meet Me In Manhattan'' 2015 * ''All She Ever Wished For'' 2016


Short stories

* All I Want For Christmas (with others) 2012 * The Perfect Escape: Romantic short stories to relax with (with other writers) 2013 * Single, Forty and Fabulous!: A Love...Maybe Valentine eShort 2015 * Love...Maybe: The Must-Have Eshort Collection (with others) 2015 * In A New York Minute 2015


Others

* REMEMBRANCE WRITING 101 The Easy Way to Write and Share the Stories of Your Life, A Guidebook 2011


References

Irish women novelists Actresses from Dublin (city) Living people 20th-century Irish actresses 21st-century Irish writers 1960s births 21st-century Irish actresses Irish soap opera actresses 21st-century Irish women writers Writers from Dublin (city) {{Ireland-writer-stub