NEWS
October 2024 Awarded Arts Council Literature Bursary
September 2024 Irish Writers Centre Evolution Programme Awardee
April 2022 A Quiet Tide optioned by Mixed Bag Media – The project will be developed as a feature film by IFTA winner producer Garret Daly with the assistance of Screen Ireland and adapted for the screen by Marianne Lee.
‘It’s a beautiful novel that examines an inspiring long-forgotten Irish woman. Marianne’s attention to detail and perceptive research captures the heartbreak of missed opportunities. Its themes have a strong resonance for society today.’ – Garret Daly
February 2022 A Quiet Tide featured on RTÉ Radio One Book on One
February 2022 A Quiet Tide audiobook released
January 2021 Shortlisted for the Kate O’Brien Award 2021
December 2020 Listed in ‘The best debut fiction of 2020’ – Sarah Gilmartin, The Irish Times
April 2020 The Irish Examiner, Beginner’s Pluck by Sue Leonard – ‘A joy of a novel; stylish, atmospheric, and highly authentic.’
March 2020 Review in The Irish Times by Sarah Gilmartin – ’Poignant novel of missed opportunities… Though set in the past, the themes of her debut have a modern feel, none more so than in Ellen’s attempts to establish herself in a male-dominated field.‘
March 2020 Review in The Business Post www.businesspost.ie by Dermot Bolger – ‘…an exemplary act of reclamation and literary ventriloquism, vividly capturing Ireland in the aftermath of the United Irishmen and the Act of Union… This novel has no minor characters, and a heroine whom no reader will easily forget.’
March 2020 Joined in the chat on BBC Ulster’s The Culture Cafe with Marie-Louise Muir.
Aug 19 https://irishwriterscentre.ie/blogs/news/novel-fair-news
Aug 19 My debut novel ‘A Quiet Tide’ about 19th century botanist Ellen Hutchins, will be published in spring 2020 by New Island.
Jan 19 It’s been announced that I am one of twelve Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair 19 finalists. Novel Fair 19
