Emily Hourican

Emily Hourican is the author of several Irish bestselling novels for adults, including The Glorious Guinness Girls and A Kennedy Affair. Several of Emily's novels have been short-listed for the Best Popular Fiction Award at the Irish Book Awards, and her fourth novel, The Outsider, is being developed as a six-part TV series with Treasure Films. Emily was born in Belfast and grew up in Brussels, later studying English and History and earning a Masters in English Literature in Dublin. She has been an award-winning editor and journalist with the Sunday Independent, Ireland’s biggestselling newspaper, for over 20 years. She lives in Dublin with her husband and three children. Murder at the Ivy Hotel is her debut children’s book.