Roisin Meaney

Roisin Meaney (born September 1959), is an Irish novelist based in Limerick.

Roisin Meaney
BornSeptember 1959
Listowel, County Kerry
NationalityIrish

Biography

Roisin 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. Though she has had times when she also lived 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. Back in Ireland she began writing and in 2001 her first novel, The Daisy Picker, won a Write a Bestseller competition and was published in 2004. Meaney began job sharing until eventually four years later she became a fulltime writer, and her tenth book, After the Wedding was published in April 2014. [1][2][3][4][5]

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
  • 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)

References and sources
  1. "Roisin Meaney". Writing.ie. 2014-03-23. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
  2. Examiner, Irish (2019-07-10). "Is 60 really the new 40? Author Roisin Meaney has her say". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
  3. "About Roisin Meaney". 2013-02-03. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
  4. "Roisin Meaney". The O'Brien Press. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
  5. "'My characters have moments of triumph, in bed and out of it, just as real people do!'". The Irish Times. 2013-03-21. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
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