![]() ![]() ![]() Plucking inspiration from her Hiberno-French background, her teenage self, and recent Irish sociopolitical events, Fowley-Doyle has crafted a fantastical feminist tale which gives voice to women who have struggled to be heard. Deena subsequently learns that the Rys women carry the burden of an ancient curse – that they are all “bad apples.” When Deena starts to receive messages from Mandy, so begins a cross-country journey to find her lost sister, and get to the root of her family’s blighted origins. On the same day, her older sister Mandy is seen leaping off a cliff and presumed dead. Our journey begins on protagonist Deena Rys’s 17th birthday, when she finally comes out to her family. In many ways, this is her most powerful work to date. She has been shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and an Irish Book Award in her career so far.įowley-Doyle’s new novel, All the Bad Apples, unleashes more of her piercing, evocative style. Her bestselling books have caught the hearts of literary bloggers and been reported upon by a number of publications on both sides of the Atlantic. ![]() ![]() Given this, it comes as no surprise that she has become one of Ireland’s leading names in Young Adult fiction, starting with her debut, The Accident Season (2015), and Spellbook of the Lost and Found (2017). Moïra Fowley-Doyle has been writing since she was a small child, including a story about spiders, so she would no longer be fearful of them. ![]()
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