Claire Kilroy

Claire Kilroy is the author of five novels, including the recently published Soldier Sailor, described by the Irish Times as ‘virtuosic. . . a resonant and important book' and by the Sunday Times as ‘a novel that immediately feels like the definitive work on modern motherhood . . . one of the finest novels published this year' She was awarded the Rooney Prize in 2004 and has been shortlisted for many other prizes, including the Irish Novel of the Year and the Kerry Group Prize for fiction.