In conversation with Sophia Wren in Barker and Jones, Naas — Thursday 30th April at 6pm.
All welcome, no booking required.
Published April 2026
For Niamh Ryan, the Foleys are family. Her childhood flew by on their farm, playing with her best friend Peter and his sister Kate - all the while being doted on by their mother Helen and coached by their father Liam, a legendary former hurling player.
Now, following a distressing series of events, the family ties are strained. Niamh receives drunken phone calls and messages from Peter who can't understand what derailed their burgeoning relationship three years ago. Meanwhile, Helen Foley is trying her best to escape her life by checking into guesthouses under the names of women she went to school with. In her life in Belfast, Kate is attempting to hold down a job and a relationship while carrying the weight of the family's secrets, and feeling like she is the one to blame.
As a family wedding looms, and the women find themselves face to face, the knotty love that still binds Niamh, Helen and Kate might just bring them back together again.
Winner — Newcomer of the Year, An Post Irish Book Awards 2021
Debbie White lives on a dairy farm with her mother, Maeve, and Billy, her uncle.
Billy sleeps out in a caravan in the garden with a bottle of whiskey and the stars overhead for company. Maeve spends her days recording her dreams, which she believes to be prophecies.
This world is Debbie's normal, but she is about to step into life as a student at Trinity College Dublin. As she navigates between university and home, Debbie's world begins to unravel. Snowflake is a novel about growing up and leaving home, only to realise that you've taken it with you.
In conversation with Sophia Wren in Barker and Jones, Naas — Thursday 30th April at 6pm.
All welcome, no booking required.
Rabat UNESCO World Book Capital & SIEL appearances (Irish Embassy in Rabat)
4 May 2026 — Writers Encounter at Bloom Books & More, Casablanca
5 May 2026 — Cafe Litteraire 2026, Goethe Institut, Rabat
Early Days: The Path to Publication and Beyond — Sunday 10th May at 2pm at Books Upstairs, Dublin. Louise Nealon, Colin Barrett, and Gustav Parker Hibbett in discussion with Kasandra Ferguson.
Book ticketsPresent in the Past — Amanda Block & Louise Nealon — Saturday 23rd May at 3.30pm, Le Fanu, International Literature Festival Dublin. In conversation with Anna Carey.
Book ticketsRonan Hession & Louise Nealon — Saturday 6th June at 4pm at The Crescent, Belfast Book Festival. In conversation with Andrew Cunning.
Book tickets
Louise Nealon is a writer from County Kildare, Ireland. Her debut novel, Snowflake, was published in 2021. It won the Newcomer of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards and was chosen for the One Dublin One Book campaign in 2024.
Her second novel, Everything that is Beautiful, was released in April 2026 in Ireland and the UK, and will be released in August 2026 in the USA.
I am represented by Marianne Gunn O'Connor. My books are published by Bonnier Books in Ireland, the UK and Australia, and by Harper Books in the US. Please contact my agent for rights queries here: [email protected]. For anything else, please leave a message below.