Kathleen Mac Mahon

Author and journalist

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Kathleen Mac Mahon is a bestselling writer and journalist.

She has published four novels, as well as a children's book and a number of short stories. She also writes a newspaper column and occasionally reviews fiction for print media and radio.

Her work has been nominated for a number of prizes, including the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and the Irish Book Awards.

She lives in Dublin with her husband and twin daughters.

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Kathleen's first novel, 'This is How It Ends,' was translated into more than twenty languages, spent five weeks at the top of the bestseller lists in Ireland, and was a Richard and Judy Book Club choice in the U.K.

Her second novel, 'The Long, Hot Summer,' was published to much acclaim in Ireland and the U.K. in 2015 and was an immediate bestseller.

'Nothing But Blue Sky,' was her third novel and the first to be published by Penguin under their new imprint, Sandycove Press. It was longlisted for the 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction.

CLAIRE FULLER
"Mac Mahon writes with beautiful simplicity, conjuring real and complex people straight off the page."
MIKE MCCORMACK
"A born storyteller."
SINEAD CROWLEY
"No one does delicately observed observation like Kathleen Mac Mahon."
"A notable name in Irish literature "
  • Charlotte Ryan
  • RTÉ CULTURE
"MacMahon writes about landscape with painterly precision"
  • Aingeala Flannery
  • Author
"...an extraordinary gift and a voice that is entirely her own."
  • IRISH INDEPENDENT
  • Edel Coffey
"If one of the traits of a great novelist is their insight into the human condition, Mac Mahon has it in spades. "
  • Sarah Gilmartin
  • THE IRISH TIMES
""MacMahon’s prose fizzes from page one, capturing the imagination and holding the reader." "
  • The Express
  • Vanessa Berridge
""Kathleen MacMahon writes with a confidence and ease and with an unerring sense of timing." "
  • Maeve Binchy
  • The Irish Times
"MacMahon is an extraordinarily self-disciplined writer. Her dialogue couldn't appear more naturalistic. Her prose couldn't be tighter; yet it could not appear more effortless or beautiful."
  • Sunday Independent
  • Lorraine Courtney