Julie Parsons 

Julie Parsons was born in New Zealand but has lived most of her life in Ireland. Formerly a radio and television producer with RTÉ, she has been writing full time since her first novel, Mary, Mary, was published in 1998. A commercial and critical success, it has been translated into seventeen languages. Her most recent novel, The Guilty Heart, spent six weeks in the Irish bestsellers. She is married and lives outside Dublin.