Caroline O'Donoghue explained

Caroline O'Donoghue
Birth Place:Cork, Ireland
Occupation:Novelist
Genre:Young adult
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Caroline O'Donoghue is a writer from Cork, Ireland. As well as being a New York Times bestselling young adult novelist,[1] she has also worked as a columnist (most notably for the Irish Examiner and Harper's Bazaar), and has a podcast, Sentimental Garbage.

Writing

O'Donoghue's debut novel Promising Young Women was published in 2018 by Little, Brown and received favourable reviews, with The Irish Times comparing her to Sally Rooney and Rosita Sweetman[2] and The London Magazine saying that her writing style was both "original and engaging".[3] Her writing appeared in The Observer.[4]

Her next adult novel, The Rachel Incident, was published in 2023. The novel received positive reviews from critics.[5] It was described by The Washington Post as "heartbreaking and funny" with Ron Charles noting "she may not have Binchy's sweetness, but she illuminates these Irish lives with a light all her own".[6] The Irish Times called it "a deeply satisfying novel about friendship and love".[7]

She has written a YA series, All Our Hidden Gifts, with three books published to date: All Our Hidden Gifts (2021), The Gifts That Bind Us (2022), and Every Gift a Curse (2023). The first of the series, All Our Hidden Gifts, was a New York Times bestselling young adult title.

In 2024 The Rachel Incident was shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction.[8]

Podcasts

O'Donoghue started the Sentimental Garbage podcast in 2018, which deals with popular culture, especially women's fiction.[9] This led to a spin-off podcast about Sex and the City called Sentimental In The City, which is co-hosted with Dolly Alderton.[10]

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. News: Best Sellers: Young Adult Paperback Books . 26 June 2022 . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-07-26 . 0362-4331.
  2. News: Sarah . Gilmartin . 2 June 2018 . Promising Young Women by Caroline O'Donoghue: timely and vibrant . 2023-07-25 . The Irish Times . en.
  3. Web site: Sugar . Vera . 6 September 2018 . Promising Young Women by Caroline O'Donoghue . 2023-07-25 . The London Magazine . en-GB.
  4. News: O’Donoghue . Caroline . 2023-08-06 . Rethinking the ‘gay best friend’ . 2024-06-04 . The Observer . en-GB . 0029-7712.
  5. Web site: Book Marks reviews of The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue . August 8, 2023 . Book Marks . en-US.
  6. News: Charles . Ron . 20 June 2023 . An Irish woman looks back, with plenty of humor and heartbreak . en-US . Washington Post . 2023-07-25 . 0190-8286.
  7. Web site: The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue: A deeply satisfying novel about friendship and love . 2024-05-20 . The Irish Times . en.
  8. News: Creamer . Ella . 2024-10-24 . David Nicholls heads shortlist for Wodehouse comic fiction prize . 2024-12-04 . The Guardian . en-GB . 0261-3077.
  9. Web site: 10 December 2018 . Rhoda . Baxter . Caroline O'Donoghue: Sentimental Garbage Podcast . Romantic Novelists Association. 2023-07-25 . en-GB.
  10. Web site: Caroline . O'Donoghue. 6 April 2021 . What Sex and the City taught me about the joy of fandom . 2023-07-25 . Harper's BAZAAR . en-GB.
  11. Web site: Cain . Hamilton . June 27, 2023 . https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/27/books/review/the-rachel-incident-caroline-odonoghue.html . New York Times.
  12. Web site: December 16, 2023 . 'The Rachel Incident' looks back on early-20s friendships, love and mistakes . NPR.
  13. News: Charles . Ron . 2023-06-20 . Review An Irish woman looks back, with plenty of humor and heartbreak . 2024-06-04 . Washington Post . en-US . 0190-8286.

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