Sinead Moriarty (born c. 1971) is a best selling romance novelist of over 13 books.
Life and work
The third of three children, Moriarty was born in Booterstown,
Dublin to Aidan and Mary Moriarty about 1971. Her mother was a writer on Irish historical figures like Swift, Yeats, Joyce. Moriarty was educated in
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Australia
* Trinity Anglican College, an Anglican coeducational primary and secondary school in , New South Wales
* Trinity Catholic College, Auburn, a coeducational school in the inner-western suburbs of Sydney, New ...
in Dublin where she did a
Bachelor of Arts in French and Spanish. After university she moved to
Paris and then
London, working as a journalist. When she was in London she began to write fiction and her first novel was published by
Penguin Books. Since then she has moved back to Dublin with her husband, and they have three children. She also writes a column for the
Irish Independent
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The newspaper version often includes glossy magazines.
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.
Moriarty was appointed a member of the Arts Council of Ireland in July 2018.
Awards
* 2015 ''The Way We Were'' won The Irish Independent Popular Fiction Book of the Year
* 2021 ''The New Girl'' was named
Irish Book Awards
The Irish Book Awards are Irish literary awards given annually to books and authors in various categories. In 2018 An Post took over sponsorship of the awards from Bord Gais Energy. It is the only literary award supported by all-Irish bookstores. ...
' Teen and Young Adult Book of the Year
Bibliography
* ''Seven Letters''
* ''Our Secrets and Lies''
* ''The Good Mother''
* ''The Way We Were''
* ''The Secrets Sisters Keep''
* ''Mad About You''
* ''This Child of Mine''
* ''Me and My Sisters''
* ''Pieces of My Heart''
* ''Who's Life is it Anyway''
* ''In My Sister’s Shoes''
* ''From Here to Maternity''
* ''A Perfect Match''
* ''The Baby Trail''
* ''The New Girl''
References
Irish women novelists
Writers from Dublin (city)
Living people
1970s births
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