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Eithne Shortall


Born
Dublin, Ireland
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Eithne Shortall is an author and journalist. Her debut novel, Love in Row 27, was published in June 2017. Her second novel, Grace after Henry, will be published in the UK and Ireland in May 2018 and in the United States in early 2019. She is the chief arts writer with the Irish edition of the Sunday Times newspaper and a regular contributor to RTE Radio.

Eithne was born and grew up in Dublin, Ireland. She studied journalism at Dublin City University and spent four months living in West Virginia. She lived in Paris for a year in her early twenties and vaguely thought about writing. She went to London to write her first novel, Love in Row 27, which is set there. Her follow-up, Grace after Henry, is set in – and is partly a love letter to – Dub ...more

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Three Little Truths
3.58 avg rating — 4,749 ratings — published 2020 — 11 editions
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Grace After Henry
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It Could Never Happen Here
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Love in Row 27
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The Lodgers
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“What I’m saying is that whoever the people are, you can build your own family. Getting to be on your team should be an honour, not an entitlement.”
― Eithne Shortall, The Lodgers
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“Turns out he was on to something. Agreeing with someone who’s trying to get a rise out of you is very enjoyable.”
― Eithne Shortall, The Lodgers
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“I was working with some of the country’s most vulnerable people on a daily basis – people entirely forgotten by the state and society – and despite all my professional knowledge of how mental illness works, I still couldn’t help thinking: ‘What does my daughter have to be depressed about?”
― Eithne Shortall, The Lodgers
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