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About the Author
Dr Martina Devlin is an author and newspaper columnist. Prizes include the Royal Society of Literature’s V.S. Pritchett Prize and a Hennessy Literary Award, and she has been shortlisted three times for the Irish Book Awards. Other novels include Charlotte, which explores the mythmaking surrounding Charlotte Brontë; Edith, about Irish R.M. co-author Edith Somerville’s struggle to survive during the turbulence of civil war; and The House Where It Happened, about an Irish witchcraft trial. A plaque was erected to commemorate those wrongly convicted following a campaign she initiated. Martina writes a weekly current affairs column for the Irish Independent for which she has been named National Newspapers of Ireland commentator of the year, among other journalism prizes. She holds a PhD in literary practice from Trinity College Dublin and has lectured there and in other universities on Irish literature. She was born in Omagh and lives in Dublin. More information on www.martinadevlin.ie