Caroline O'Donoghue

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Caroline O'Donoghue
BornCork, Ireland
OccupationNovelist
GenreYoung adult

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.

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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. [1]

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

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  10. O'Donoghue, Caroline (6 April 2021). "What Sex and the City taught me about the joy of fandom". Harper's BAZAAR. Retrieved 2023-07-25.
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