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Amanda Murphy,
Author of The Art of Lost Luggage and Fixing Kate
Prior to taking up writing as a full time career Amanda Murphy worked as a Management Consultant and Trainer for a Finnish company. Her life has never been dull having braved a parachute jump as a student, a boat ride under Niagara Falls , won the incredible sum of $100 in Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas and had the dubious pleasure of sharing a lift in Stuttgart with Boris Becker. Both survived to tell the tale.
She staves off writer’s block by listening to the music of Madonna and George Michael and is not ashamed to admit to having no cats even though she remains unmarried.
Books
The Art Of Lost Lugagge
'What the hell are they doing with my luggage?'
That was how it all began for Amanda Murphy, Poolbeg's latest and definitely funniest author. Finding herself alone and luggageless in a Helsinki hotel after the airline had lost her luggage for a record breaking eighteenth time in as many months, she was convinced that her surname was probably largely to blame for it. Sleepless in Helsinki , Amanda grabbed her filofax and by morning each small page was covered with what turned out to be the first chapter of her witty, intelligent and suspenseful first novel, The Art of Lost Luggage.
'Samantha Jordan is "independent and opinionated" or "a bit of a stroppy cow", depending on who you ask. The truth is she's a tough cookie with a very soft centre.
Management consultant for a Finnish company she is also extremely efficient. But for one fact: her inability to fly between any two points and arrive at the same time as her luggage. Sam figures that it's her lot in life to be luggageless.
Then the airline assigns the blindingly gorgeous Dominic to her case (literally) and a certain business relationship takes off in a romantic direction.
With two men in her life - but still no luggage - things are definitely looking up.
Then events turn increasingly sinister.......
The Art of Lost Luggage is fresh, witty and full of surprise. Amanda Murphy brings her quirky sense of humour and her undoubted talent as a storyteller to bear in her first novel. As the sorry tale of Samantha and her errant luggage unfolds we are drawn closer to her as Murphy allow us cosy little chats and an intimacy with the plot...such as her evil plans for Managing Directors of airlines.
Amanda Murphy’s superb wit and gift for the 'one-liner' have won her a BBC commission and she is currently launching a sitcom career. Her sitcom "A Whole Nother Story" was transmitted on Radio 4 in September 2001.
Fixing Kate
'I don't actually know what happened on that day - the day that changed my life'
She had us laughing out loud in her debut novel The Art of Lost Luggage as we followed the hapless Samantha in pursuit of her eternally lost luggage and a whole lot more.
Now in her clever and equally funny second book Fixing Kate she uses her unique and often dark humour to weave another hilarious tale of misfortune and mishap.
As her heroine Kate experiences bedpans, IV drips, dishy doctors and hospital food she relies on her best friends and a wholesome sense of humour to get her through and save her social life.
Meet Kate Townsend, thirty-one year old information technology consultant with quite a nice life, thank you very much, and some great friends.
Now you couldn't call Kate unlucky but you could say she was heading for something big.
And when it came, it was life-threatening.
It all began when Kate flew downstairs to answer her mobile phone - and fly she did - right through the air and landed in the A&E department on a morphine drip.
Stuck in her hospital bed Kate is not about to let life, and love, pass her by.
Amid four different types of pasta and a consultant with an appetite, Kate plays host to her devoted gang of friends who are not about to let a broken leg spoil their girls' night in.