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Life
1969- ; b. Castledawson, Co. Derry; issued children’s novel series, The Pineapple Tart (1992), A Soft Touch (1993), and The Dolly Holiday (1994) [all pub. Poolbeg]; also Kissing the Frog (Dublin: Poolbeg 1996), set in an Ulster town and dealing with the progress of two young women; moved to the Middle East; married, with four children; lived in Africa; returned to publishing after ten years with Cinderella’s Sister (Poolbeg 2007), relating the lives of very different twins, the narrator Francesca and the her sister Camilla, set partly in Botswana; issued Enchanting Alice (2008), dealing with babies, sex and eccentricity in rural life.
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Works
For children, The Pineapple Tart (Dublin: Poolbeg Press 1992); A Soft Touch (Dublin: Poolbeg Press 1993); The Dolly Holiday (Dublin: Poolbeg Press 1994).
Fiction , Kissing the Frog (Dublin: Poolbeg 1996); Cinderella’s Sister (Dublin: Poolbeg Press 2007); Enchanting Alice (Dublin: Poolbeg Press 2008), q.pp.
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