She has over 800,000 followers across her social media platforms and her YouTube videos have amassed almost eighty million views online, reaching people with her warm personality and her life lessons as well as her views on divisive topics such as sexuality, women’s rights, health and relationships. Melanie Murphy is a bestselling Irish author and award-winning online content creator from Dublin, where she lives with her husband and her son.

It won Crime Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards and has also been optioned for screen. Her second novel for adults, After the Silence, was published in 2020 and was an instant bestseller in Ireland. Louise’s first novel for adults, Almost Love, was published in 2018, followed shortly by The Surface Breaks, her feminist re-imagining of The Little Mermaid. Both novels have been optioned for screen. It spent 52 consecutive weeks in the Irish top 10 bestseller list. Her second novel, Asking For It, was published in September 2015 to widespread critical acclaim. Her first novel, Only Ever Yours, was released in 2014 and won the Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year at the Irish Book Awards, the Eilís Dillon Award for a First Book and the Bookseller’s inaugural YA Book Prize. Louise O’Neill grew up in Clonakilty, a small town in West Cork, Ireland. Join bestselling authors Louise O’Neill and Melanie Murphy as they chat to award winning blogger Louise Cooney about their books, careers and inspirations.

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