Alison Jameson's Blog

I have a piece in today's Irish Times about writing while raising a child. You can find it here:

How to Bring Up Baby while Giving Birth to a Book

For those of you in Ireland, I'll be appearing on Ireland AM on TV3, sometime around 8:15am.

Here's an article I wrote for the Irish Evening Herald about (temporarily!) moving back in with my mother:

Evening Herald

LITTLE BEAUTY will be launched at Hodges Figgis bookstore on Dawson St. in Dublin on Wednesday, 10 July at 6:30pm. The event is open to the public. If you're in Dublin, feel free to come along. I look forward to meeting you!

The Irish Times has picked Little Beauty as one of their Twenty-Five Titles to Pack This Summer:

It’s 1975, and Laura Quinn is desperate to leave the remote island off the west coast of Ireland where she grew up. Her parents are both dead, and her relationship with her lover, Martin, seems to be going nowhere. So she goes to an interview for a job as housekeeper for a prosperous couple living on the mainland, an encounter that will change her life forever. Finely crafted and featuring a brilliantly complicated heroine, Jameson’s heartbreaking third novel is a moving story about social mores and the power of parental love.

Read the article here: http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/boo...