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Represented By: Ivan Mulcahy
She has been shortlisted for various awards including the Francis MacManus Short Story Award, the Hennessy Literary Awards and the SBP/Penguin Ireland Award. She was nominated for The Pushcart Prize 2021.
Since 2014 she has been writing humorous and poignant pieces about parenting five boys on her blog.
Her Last Words (June 2022) is her first novel.
Represented By: Ivan Mulcahy
She has been shortlisted for various awards including the Francis MacManus Short Story Award, the Hennessy Literary Awards and the SBP/Penguin Ireland Award. She was nominated for The Pushcart Prize 2021.
Since 2014 she has been writing humorous and poignant pieces about parenting five boys on her blog.
Her Last Words (June 2022) is her first novel.
Author: E.V. Kelly
Genres: Genre Fiction
A gripping debut psychological thriller set on the east coast of Ireland. Atmospheric, twisty, and propulsive, Her Last Words is an edge-of-your-seat read about obsession and dark secrets coming to light.
The dead won’t stay silent forever
On a crisp spring morning Cass drops her husband, a respected university lecturer, at the beach for his medically prescribed swim. While waiting for him, something catches her eye. A young woman runs towards her husband and embraces him – until he holds his hand over her face and she falls down on the stones, dead.
In the backseat of the car, their seven-year-old son sits quietly. When her husband returns, he says nothing. Neither does Cass. Afraid to speak up in the immediate aftermath, Cass embarks on a solitary quest to unravel what has taken place.
Cass is quickly drawn into a web of lies that pulls her back to the previous autumn, when a beautiful Italian postgraduate student finds herself subsumed by an inescapable desire. It’s visceral. It’s destiny. But sometimes destiny can kill…