All the JM Agency team are so proud to announce that Lorraine O’Byrne’s final novel I Will Find You will be launched in the beautiful The Killaloe Hotel and Spa this Saturday the 18th.
Special thanks to bestselling and prize-winning author Donal Ryan for kindly agreeing to launch Lorraine’s book. Donal was Lorraine’s tutor when she studied for a masters in creative writing in the University of Limerick.
I Will Find You was very much a team effort, with JM Agency team members Jeremy, Amanda, Parvathi and Joanne all working collectively to ensure Lorraine’s last book was published to exceptional standards. Special mention also to Lorraine’s family, including her husband Donal and sister Síle, and her literary colleagues in her writing group, who did everything to ensure Lorraine’s final book was brought to life, a novel that fittingly blends all her various interests and sources of inspiration, including the plight of women in a patriarchal system, and how the supernatural pervades everyday life.
All are welcome to join us for this special literary event!
A little more about Lorraine
Lorraine O’Byrne (née Barry) was an Irish author of children’s stories and adult fiction. Inspired by her childhood in rural Ireland, Lorraine distilled her interest in fairies, pixies and other supernatural creatures into her children’s stories such as The Hippity, Dippity Witch and Lucy Pebble’s Miracle. Lorraine’s first adult fiction was The Wrath of Voodoo in 2004, about a young Irish woman who went on an adventure to Kenya. Despite an interest in the supernatural, Lorraine always brought her trademark humour to her writing, as 2015’s Escaping the Prince testifies.
Lorraine graduated from the University of Limerick with a BA in Languages, History and Sociology, before obtaining a diploma in freelance journalism and an MA in Creative Writing, also from UL, where her tutor was bestselling Irish author Donal Ryan.
Like so many Irish writers before her, from WB Yeats to Edna O’Brien, Lorraine was inspired by Ireland’s natural landscapes and succeeded in seeing the ordinary in the extraordinary. Her book Poppy the Cygnet was inspired by the numerous swans that visit the beautiful lake of Lough Gur each year, where Lorraine worked as a tour guide.
Lorraine spent her final years working as a carer for the elderly in her community while she lived on a farm in Co Limerick, with her beloved husband Donal, and their three cats, two dogs and a horse. Lorraine enjoyed outdoor pursuits such as hill and nature walks and horse riding. The rural chimes of farm life proved stimulating for her imagination, as it was here, she completed her final novel, I Will Find You, a story of a long-buried secret seen through a supernatural prism.
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