Cathy Kelly
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "about".Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Script error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Cathy Kelly (born September 12, 1966) is an Irish writer of women's fiction and a former journalist. In 2001, her novel Someone Like You won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award from the Romantic Novelists' Association.[1]
Life and career
Born in Belfast but raised in Dublin,[2] Kelly studied at a convent school. She was a journalist for the Sunday World, where she published an advice column and film criticism.[2]
Kelly published her first book Woman To Woman, which became an international bestseller, in 1997.[2] She published two more books, She’s The One and Never Too Late, before retiring from journalism in 2001.[3]
Someone Like You, What She Wants, Just Between Us, and Best of Friends followed in successive years.[3] Always and Forever was her first hardback to reach number one, then it topped the overall UK bestseller list in October 2005.[3]
Her books Lessons in Heartbreak and Homecoming were shortlisted for the Eason Irish Popular Fiction Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards.[4] Once in a Lifetime topped the UK bestsellers again[5] for multiple weeks.[6] In March 2011, Homecoming did the same. Her short story collection, Christmas Magic, was the Christmas number one in Ireland.[3] She is a number one bestseller in Australia and New Zealand, where she tours annually, and her works have been translated into many different languages.[7]
Kelly is involved with many charities and has been an ambassador for UNICEF Ireland since 2005.[2][8]
In 2022, Kelly appeared on the fifth series of the Irish version of Dancing With the Stars.[9]
Published works
Novels
- Woman to Woman (1997)
- She's the One (1998)
- Never Too Late (1999)
- Someone Like You (2000)
- What She Wants (2001)
- Just Between Us (2002)
- Best of Friends (2003)
- Always and Forever (2005)
- Past Secrets (2006)
- Lessons in Heartbreak (2008)
- Once in a Lifetime (2009)
- The Perfect Holiday (2010)
- Homecoming (2010)
- The House on Willow Street (2012)
- The Honey Queen (2013)
- It Started With Paris (2014)
- Between Sisters (2015)
- Secrets of a Happy Marriage (2017)[10]
Novellas
- Letter from Chicago (2002)
Collections
- Christmas Magic (2011)
References and sources
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ a b c d Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ a b c d Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
External links
- Pages with script errors
- 1966 births
- Living people
- Irish film critics
- Irish women critics
- Irish women novelists
- Journalists from Belfast
- RoNA Award winners
- 20th-century Irish novelists
- 21st-century Irish novelists
- 20th-century Irish women writers
- 21st-century Irish women writers
- Women romantic fiction writers
- Women film critics
- 20th-century women journalists from Northern Ireland
- 21st-century women journalists from Northern Ireland
- 20th-century journalists from Northern Ireland
- 21st-century journalists from Northern Ireland