Roisin Meaney (born September 1959), is an Irish novelist based in Limerick.
Biography
Roisin Meaney was born in
Listowel
Listowel ( ; , IPA: ˆlʲɪsË ËˆtÌªË uÉ™hÉ™lʲ is a heritage market town in County Kerry, Ireland. It is on the River Feale, from the county town, Tralee. The town of Listowel had a population of 4,820 according to the Central Statistics Of ...
, County Kerry, though her family moved to
Tipperary town before she was one. After that Meaney moved to
Limerick
Limerick ( ; ga, Luimneach ) is a western city in Ireland situated within County Limerick. It is in the province of Munster and is located in the Mid-West which comprises part of the Southern Region. With a population of 94,192 at the 2016 ...
and has, one way or another, lived there since, with periods in the US, London and Africa. Meaney qualified as a primary teacher and taught in Dublin before spending two years in
Zimbabwe
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. In
London
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she worked as a copywriter for three years. Back in Ireland she resumed her teaching but also began writing, and in 2001 her first novel, ''The Daisy Picker'', won a ''Write a Bestseller'' competition and was published in 2004. Meaney switched to job-sharing to allow more time for writing until, four years later, with three published novels and another on the way she took early retirement from the classroom and became a fulltime writer. Her nineteenth novel, ''The Book Club'' was published in June 2021 and she's currently working on the next, due out in summer 2022.
Bibliography
* ''The Daisy Picker'', (2004)
* ''Putting Out the Stars'', (2005)
* ''Don't Even Think About It'', (2006)
* ''The Last Week of May'', (2007)
* '' See If I Care'', (2007) with
Judi Curtin
Judi Curtin (born c 1960s) is an Irish children's writer and novelist based in Limerick.
Biography
Judi Curtin was born in Kenton, London to Irish parents who were originally from County Kerry. When she was eight her family moved to Douglas, Co ...
* ''The People Next Door'', (2008)
* ''Half Seven on a Thursday'', (2009)
* ''Love in the Making'', (2010)
* ''The Things We Do for Love'', (2011)
* ''One Summer'', (2012)
* ''Something in Common'', (2013)
* ''After the Wedding'', (2014)
* ''Two Fridays in April'', (2015)
* ''I'll be Home for Christmas'', (2015)
* ''The Reunion'', (2016)
* ''The Street Where You Live'', (2017)
* ''The Anniversary'', (2018)
* ''The Birthday Party'', (2019)
* ''The Restaurant'', (2020)
* ''It's That Time of Year'', (2020)
* ''The Book Club'', (2021)
References and sources
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1959 births
21st-century Irish women writers
Writers from Limerick (city)
Living people