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Female authors take Britain by storm Two female Irish
authors are taking the chick-lit genre by storm after their books made
the Top-20 fiction chart in Britain last week.
Sinead Moriarty and Niamh Greene have joined a long list of Irish writers
like Maeve Binchy, Marian Keyes, Cathy Kelly and Patricia Scanlon who
have all had huge success in Britain.
Dublin-born author Moriarty re-leased her fourth novel In My Sister’s
Shoes earlier this month and is currently at No.12 in the charts.
The book previously reached the No.1 spot in Ireland last summer.
The 33-year-old’s first book — The Baby Trail — is about
a couple struggling to conceive and has been translated into 20 languages.
The mother-of-two said: “It’s a privilege to do something
you love and when it’s a success that’s the cherry on top
of the cake.”
The other Irish author achieving success is Dublin housewife Niamh Greene.
The mother-of-two recently released her debut effort Secret Diary of a
Demented Housewife, which last week reached No.11 in the charts.
She has a BA in English and French from University College Dublin (UCD).
After reading the book her husband persuaded her to contact Penguin publishers.
They snapped up the book which was a bestseller in Ireland last year.
The two authors are part of a new-generation of Irish writers to take
Britain by storm — the most notable of recent years being Cecelia
Ahern.
The 26-year-old Dubliner wrote international bestseller PS, I Love You
when she was 21 and the book has since been made into a Hollywood film
starring Hilary Swank.
She has since released three bestsellers and is currently working on her
fifth novel. |
