Welcome to Kate Kerrigan’s page here on podcasts.ie – in coming weeks we will include audio files of Kate reading from her recent novels.
Kate’s real name is Morag Prunty, she was born in Scotland in 1964 to Irish parents. She moved to Ireland in 1990 to re-launch the Irish Tatler. Her novels are Wild Cats & Colleens/Dancing with Mules (London, Pan MacMillan, 2001/New York, Harper Collins, 2001); Disco Daddy (Pan MacMillan, 2002/New York, Harper Collins, 2002); Poison Arrows (Dublin, Tivoli, 2003); Superstar Lovers (Pan MacMillan, 2004/Harper Collins, 2004)
As Kate Kerrigan she has published Recipes for a Perfect Marriage (London, Pan Macmillan Books, 2006), which was translated into 15 languages and sold for film rights with Augustine Films in San Francisco; and The Miracle of Grace (London, Pan Macmillan, Spring 2007) which she is now adapting into a screenplay for the Irish Film Board. Her latest novel is Ellis Island – the first of a trilogy. Kate now lives in Killala, Co. Mayo. With her husband and two sons.
Below you will find 2 podcasts featuring Kate. In the first sound file we feature an interview with Kate talking about her work and in the second file you will hear a recording of Kate reading from her novel The Miracle of Grace’.
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