An utterly heart-wrenching and gripping Irish novel filled with family secrets (Emerald Isles, Bookouture)
The Irish Key
Grace is running from a controlling husband. She is given a house in southern Ireland, but it isn’t quite the sanctuary she’s hoping for… A dual timeline fiction spanning several generations, and the first of a series contracted by Bookouture.
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This story has everything – mystery, intrigue, true love, family, the kindness of strangers and hope… An absolutely wonderful story that I look forward to recommending to my friends. Beautiful… breath taking… wonderfully written story of family, friendship, and filled with hope… kept me flying through the pages… wonderful…
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The Back Story
When I moved to Ireland I found lots of such ‘wrecks’ waiting to be renovated. In fact, I bought one and spent the next 10 years doing it up. The rest is pure fiction! This would be classed as women’s dual timeline fiction. That genre doesn’t seem to be available here.
Daisy O'Shea
The Silence of Children
An unputdownable suspense thriller with an amazing twist
When Dee is dragged into her father’s mission to save a girl from her abusive carers, she’s thrust into a chilling world where predators operate behind a mask of respectability. She tries to look away, but can’t—and so becomes a target herself. Haunted by a truth almost too horrific to believe, and driven by a fierce sense of justice, she steps towards the darkness. But making an enemy of the powerful man who controls a hidden network is not only frightening, it puts her own family in danger.
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"The Silence of Children is a powerful, character-driven thriller full of tension, humanity, and the fight for what's right—even when it’s terrifying."
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The Back Story
I don’t recall how this series started, in all honesty. I had an idea, ran with it, and produced a book I felt had potential. I ran with that, and now have an ongoing series. Not what I envisages, actually.
Daisy O'Shea
Legend of the Selkie
A Heartwarming Contemporary Story of Love and Loss
The book is branded a mystery, and that is true, but the mystery here is not a crime to be solved, bu
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Evocative, sensitive writing. There's a quiet, absolute control to this work. Like the sea beside which the story is set, the currents which stir it are powerful and hidden beneath the surface. It never hurries, drawing us deeper and deeper into the lives of the people of an Irish fishing village.
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The Back Story
The opening of the story was written while I took the Creative Writing Masters in Cork University. It later evolved into the current story. This book was rejected by Bookouture (and many others), but became the catalyst for The Irish Key, which Bookouture accepted. What is strange is that readers like this book equally as much as the later one that Bookouture decided was right for their list. So, editors don’t always get things right!
Daisy O'Shea
The Irish Key
Some Houses Remember What Families Forget
Grace arrives in Ireland with her six-year-old daughter, but the crumbling wreck of her grandmother’s childhood cottage doesn’t provide the fresh start she’d hoped for. Her arrival dredges up secrets from the past and changes to course of events for the people who befriend her. This utterly heartbreaking, completely life-affirming story of a family secret that echoes down the generations.
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Beautiful… breath taking… wonderfully written story of family, friendship, and filled with hope… kept me flying through the pages… wonderful… I felt like I was standing on the shores of Roone Bay and enjoying the beautiful emerald sea… highly recommend - Page Turners, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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The Back Story
This is the first in series, and was written partially from my own experience of coming to Ireland and buying a wrecked farmhouse to renovate. This was accepted by Bookouture, mostly because the editors were captivated by the visual element. With Irish history as a backdrop to my stories. The ‘present’ story is set around 1980, to avoid internet etc, but the story revolves around events in the past that led to this moment. The series is now at four books published, and a fifth in progress.
Daisy O'Shea
