Anna Carey

Anna Carey is an Irish Book Award-winning writer and editor who spent her teens and twenties playing in bands.
Her debut novel The Real Rebecca won the Senior Children's Book of the Year prize at the 2011 Irish Book Awards. Her last book The Boldness of Betty was shortlisted for the same award in 2020 and was shortlisted for the KPMG Children’s Books Ireland Awards in 2021. Her drama podcast The Famine Monologues was released by RTÉ in 2021 and her play The Making of Mollie was staged in 2024 at the Ark Children’s Cultural Centre. Our Song is her first book for adults. She is married to her former bandmate Patrick Freyne and lives in Dublin.
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