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Linda Kavanagh,
Author of Love Hurts, Love Child and Hush Hush
Linda had been a journalist and writer for over 30 years.
She spent fifteen years as a staff sub-editor and feature writer with the RTE Guide, where she interviewed celebrities and wrote travel and health columns.
Linda, throughout her career in journalism, has interviewed a wide range of celebrities and personalities over the year including: Jerry Lee Lewis, Kylie Minogue, Daniel O’Donnell, Prince Charles, Clive James, Charles Dance and has met various stars from stage and screen.
Previously, Linda was the social affairs correspondent for Pulse (the doctor’s newspaper) and has also freelanced for the Irish Press and the Sunday Tribune. Teaching creative writing in Dun Laoghaire VE for two years also inspired her new desire to write her debut novel, Love Hurts.
After turning down a scholarship to the National College of Art, Linda later completed an Honours degree in Social Science in UCD. In the mid-eighties Linda worked as press officer for the Council for The Status of Women (now the Women’s Council) and enjoyed an exciting time working on profiling and heightening awareness of the organisation and its affiliated concerns. Later Linda moved into media where she worked on The Gerry Ryan Show.
Inspired to write by her father, who wrote for the staff magazine in Irish Life, Linda took on the challenge of a novel with gusto. Linda had previously contributed to several issues of Feminist Fairy Tales in the 1980’s.
The story of how Linda got published is quite memorable one. Having submitted her manuscript Linda got on with her life. The publisher had loved her manuscript and wanted to publish it, but the author contact details became mislaid. All that could be remembered was her first name, and the fact that she had worked in RTE for some years!
A series of long drawn out phone calls with various people in RTE yielded a name. But at this time Linda was living in South Africa with her partner Mike. One email and one year later Linda contacted her publisher and a deal was struck! A most wanted author was born!
Linda started writing for relaxation purposes; after busy days of writing to order she wanted to come home and write in a more relaxed way, letting her ideas and characters flow naturally and her thoughts run riot.
Linda currently lives in Dublin and has three children, two of whom live in the United States, and three grandchildren.
Books
Love Child
A will, a long standing request and a search for the truth that will eventually set them free.
“A thrilling read”
“This is chick lit territory expertly mined by the novice novelist”
“Linda Kavanagh can tell a great tale that leaves the reader deep in thought well after the final page.
New solicitor Joanna Brennan discovers a host of secrets administering the will of Agnes Martin. A few clauses seem mysterious and leave Joanna with a whole lot of questions. On a return visit to Agnes in the hospital Joanna learns she has sadly passed away.
Left with so many unanswered questions Joanna hires a private detective to assist her in her search. She could have never predicted he would cause her so many further complications…
To fulfil Agnes’s bequest Joanna must embark on a journey back to the past - to a long forgotten murder and to a world where nothing is as it seems. As the search continues she discovers a variety of people in her life who provide links to the past.
Tom Kilmartin, Agnes’s son, has known Joanna since they were both children. He does not understand the will but is keen to uncover the secrets it is hiding, some of which may change the course of his life. As Joanna starts to investigate his mother’s past, Tom finds himself uncontrollably drawn her. But is Tom someone she can trust or has she misread the signs?
Moving between a horrific murder in the past and a tissue of lies in the present Joanna must face some horrific truths that will change the course of all their lives.
Sometimes the past won’t stay buried; sometimes the truth must be set free.
