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Lisa Carey was born in 1970 in Boston, Massachusetts to Irish-American parents. She grew up in Brookline and later moved with her family to Hingham, Massachusetts.

She attended Boston College and received a B.A. in English and Philosophy in 1992.

Pursuing her MFA in Writing, she took a semester off and lived in Inishbofin, Ireland for six months. There, Carey began her first novel, The Mermaids Singing. This novel was her creative thesis for her MFA and she graduated from Vermont College in 1996.

For five years, Carey divided her time between Ireland and New England, where she wrote her next two novels, In the Country of the Young and Love in the Asylum.

In 2003, she married Timothy Spalding. They moved to Portland, Maine, where she finished h ...more

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	The Mermaids Singing: A Haunting Irish Tale of Three Generations of Women on a Mythical Island 3.78 avg rating — 2,649 ratings — published 1998 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Stolen Child 3.59 avg rating — 1,745 ratings — published 2017 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Country of the Young: A Haunting Story Where a Ghost Comforts an Artist Chained by Grief on a Maine Island 3.92 avg rating — 850 ratings — published 2000 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love in the Asylum 3.74 avg rating — 813 ratings — published 2004 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Every Visible Thing 3.74 avg rating — 638 ratings — published 2006 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“A girl is there. Dressed in a dirty rag of a dress, turning to look at him with the large, gold eyes that have studied everything from the rafters. Her hair in the overhead light appears dark for an instant, then when she shifts, fair. She is there in vivid detail, down to a mustache of beaded water above her generous mouth. A dead girl, looking more real and more alive than anyone he has ever seen.

She is not the girl—Oisin knows this with an instant, wrenching disappointment—whom he has been waiting for.”
― Lisa Carey, In the Country of the Young: A Haunting Story Where a Ghost Comforts an Artist Chained by Grief on a Maine Island

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“your life is what you make of it, with God’s grace, the good and the bad.”
― Lisa Carey, The Mermaids Singing: A Haunting Irish Tale of Three Generations of Women on a Mythical Island

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“...returns to the warmth of the bed, the resented comfort of sleep.”
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Brooklyn

by Colm Tóibín

12 votes, 19.4%

Frog Music

by Emma Donoghue

8 votes, 12.9%

Ellis Island

by Kate Kerrigan

7 votes, 11.3%

Darkfever

by Karen Marie Moning

7 votes, 11.3%

Those Faraday Girls

by Monica McInerney

6 votes, 9.7%

The Mermaids Singing

by Lisa Carey

5 votes, 8.1%

Haunted Ground

by Erin Hart

4 votes, 6.5%

TransAtlantic

by Colum McCann

4 votes, 6.5%

An Irish Country Doctor

by Patrick Taylor

4 votes, 6.5%

The Book of Tomorrow

by Cecelia Ahern

4 votes, 6.5%

Echoes of Lies

by Jo Bannister

1 vote, 1.6%

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