Eithne Shortall is an author, columnist and occasional broadcaster. She has written five bestselling and internationally published novels.
Her debut novel, Love in Row 27, has been translated into nine languages. Grace After Henry (2018) was an international bestseller, won Best Page Turner at the UK’s Big Book Awards and was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards. Her third novel, Three Little Truths, was selected for BBC Radio Two’s prestigious book club and named the best popular fiction title of the year by the Daily Mail. It Could Never Happen Here, published in 2021, was chosen for RTE television’s Page Turners and named as a favourite book club read.
Her fifth novel, The Lodgers, has just been published.
Eithne is the former chief arts writer and Home editor with the Irish edition of the Sunday Times newspaper. She has also worked as a broadcaster with RTE, BBC and TG4. In 2021, she originated, researched and presented a BBC documentary about the phenomenon of Mills & Boon.
Eithne was born and grew up in Dublin, Ireland. She studied journalism at Dublin City University and spent a semester in West Virginia. She lived in Paris for a year in her early twenties and vaguely thought about writing. She went to London to write her first novel, Love in Row 27, which is set there.
Eithne is an avid cyclist, voracious reader, eater of sweets and lover of radio.
She lives in Dublin with her partner and two young children.