Roisin Meaney (born September 1959), is an Irish novelist based in Limerick.
Roisin Meaney | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 1959 Listowel, County Kerry |
| Nationality | Irish |
Biography
editRoisin Meaney was born in Listowel, County Kerry, though her family moved to Tipperary town before she was one. After that Meaney moved to Limerick 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. In London 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.[1][2][3][4][5]
Bibliography
edit- 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
- 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
edit- ^ "Roisin Meaney". Writing.ie. 23 March 2014. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ Examiner, Irish (10 July 2019). "Is 60 really the new 40? Author Roisin Meaney has her say". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ "About Roisin Meaney". 3 February 2013. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ "Roisin Meaney". The O'Brien Press. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ "'My characters have moments of triumph, in bed and out of it, just as real people do!'". The Irish Times. 21 March 2013. Retrieved 8 January 2020.