In Autumn 2011, Cathy headlined a search for a new writer on ITV’s The Alan Titchmarsh Show.Ĭathy’s trademark is warm story-telling and she consistently tops the bestseller lists around the world with books which deal with themes ranging from relationships and marriage to depression and loss, but always with an uplifting message and strong female characters at the heart.Ĭathy also has a passionate interest in children’s rights and is an ambassador for UNICEF Ireland. Her latest novel is It Started With Paris, published by Orion in 2014.

In March 2011, Homecoming achieved the same feat. In September 2009, Once in a Lifetime topped the UK bestseller lists for three weeks. Lessons in Heartbreak was shortlisted for the Eason Irish Popular Fiction Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards in April 2009. In 2007, Past Secrets in was also a number one paperback bestseller. Her sixth novel, Just Between Us, was her first Sunday Times number one bestseller, while her eighth novel, Always and Forever, topped the UK bestseller lists in October 2005, displacing Dan Brown and J. Someone Like You and What She Wants followed in successive years. She did not become a full-time writer until she had written another two books (She’s The One and Never Too Late) and finally decided to leave the world of journalism in 2001, moving to HarperCollins Publishers at the same time. However, her overwhelming love was always fiction and she published her first international bestseller, Woman To Woman, in 1997. Born in Belfast but raised in Dublin, Cathy initially worked for thirteen years as a newspaper journalist with a national Irish Sunday newspaper, where she worked in news, features, along with spending time as an agony aunt and the paper’s film critic.

Between sisters by cathy kelly