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Melanie Murphy

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Melanie Murphy is an author and online content creator from Dublin.

With both of her children now in school, she is working away on her third novel...stay tuned.

Melanie's debut novel 'If Only', featuring an unforgettable Irish grandmother and glimpses at parallel lives, was an Irish bestseller and is still reaching new audiences.

Her pandemic word baby 'Glass Houses' was released in 2022 and also achieved bestseller status in Ireland.

In 2017, Melanie published her first non-fiction book, "Fully Functioning Human (Almost)" which sold thousands of copies, received many positive reviews and topped the Irish book charts.

Her YouTube videos have amassed eighty million views online, reaching people with her weird but warm personality and her life
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Melanie Murphy My second novel - which I'd currently describe as The Secret Garden for millennials and gen Z.…moreMy second novel - which I'd currently describe as The Secret Garden for millennials and gen Z.(less)
Melanie Murphy The catharsis of it is right up there with that ability to make people FEEL things.
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If Only

3.71 avg rating — 1,726 ratings — published 2019 — 7 editions
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3.72 avg rating — 859 ratings — published 2022 — 5 editions
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Six Books That Shaped Me

So many books over the years have taught me valuable life lessons about love, sadness, life and death and have been there for me through loss, grief, heartache, disappointment and through those turning points we all arrive at intermittently, nudging me ever so slightly in various directions. Some reads calmed my anxieties while others boosted my self-esteem by broadening my mind, increasing my kno Read more of this blog post »
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“There was no doubt about it: more heads turned for me in this slim, fit body. Businessmen, men with women on their arms, women in lipstick and others too beautiful to ever notice me normally: face after face examined me as they passed, and, as they gawped, I couldn't decide if I loved the attention more or less than I despised people for their predictability.”
Melanie Murphy, If Only

“I came to London to make my dreams come true - big, naive head on me at twenty-two. Going to work every day physically hurts.' I hadn't realised how strongly I felt about my lack of a career, my Groundhog Day existence, until I uttered those last two words and realised I wasn't exaggerating. A kind of agony wrapped me in its razor-edged wires every day as I cycled to the Sugar Pot, to Kenneth and to my hideaway cupboard; it was dull, like my skin was smeared with a strong numbing cream.”
Melanie Murphy, If Only

“Today's memories would become tomorrow's memories when the sun set”
Melanie Murphy, If Only

“Word-vomit wisdom in book form, let's have you. Here's much of what I know now, from the other side of that dark tunnel that is: growing up in the digital age. If I can make one thing easier for you then every misstep I've made so far has been worthwhile.”
Melanie Murphy, Fully Functioning Human (Almost): Living in an Online/Offline World

“There was no doubt about it: more heads turned for me in this slim, fit body. Businessmen, men with women on their arms, women in lipstick and others too beautiful to ever notice me normally: face after face examined me as they passed, and, as they gawped, I couldn't decide if I loved the attention more or less than I despised people for their predictability.”
Melanie Murphy, If Only

“We both smiled, and I leaned my head in to press my forehead into his. It only lasted seconds, but it felt more intense than I'd expected, like the sting of a burn caused by a little steam shooting from a kettle's snout, and it was as though I'd popped a joint back into place. Like all he needed was for me to be there with him and to understand. Complete oneness.”
Melanie Murphy, If Only

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