Life
b. Dublin; Author of Hellfire (2006), a novel of hardship and survival in drug-blighted inner-city Dublin; also stories in UK and US; dg. of a painter father and a writer mother; brought up in Sandymount and ed. Sandymount High School; visited Mountjoy Prison with her mother, who produced a play there in the training unit; has worked as artist’s model in Portlaoise Prison; Jonathan Williams is her literary agent.
Works
Hellfire (Dublin: Penguin Ireland 2006), 658pp.
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Criticism
Shirley Kelly, ‘She Just Walked into My Head’, [interview] in Books Ireland (Oct. 2006), p.215.
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Notes
Hellfire (2006): The four children of Rosie Dolan and Jimmy Marconi incl. Jimmy, a drug addict, and Lucy, whose descent into addiction, imprisonment, release and quest for a brutal atrocity of 13 years previously supplies the main plot; a granny regales the children with tales of Buck Whaley and the devil - hence the title.
Hellfire (2006): The four children of Rosie Dolan and Jimmy Marconi incl. Jimmy, a drug addict, and Lucy, whose descent into addiction, imprisonment, release and quest for a brutal atrocity of 13 years previously supplies the main plot; a granny regales the children with tales of Buck Whaley and the devil - hence the title.
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