Anna Carey is an Irish author of young adult novels, and journalist and musician.[1] Her first novel, The Real Rebecca, won the Children's Book of the Year (Senior Category) at the Irish Book Awards in 2011.[2]
Career
editCarey toured and played with bands for 15 years, both as a singer and musician. During that time, she recorded with the band El Diablo and appeared on two of their albums.[1]
She later became a young adult writer. She wrote a series of books with a protagonist named Rebecca, including The Real Rebecca and its sequels, Rebecca's Rules, Rebecca Rocks and Rebecca is Always Right.[3] The books are written in the form of collected diary entries.[3][1]
She also wrote a historical fiction series, with the first book titled The Making of Mollie. The book is set in Dublin in 1912; in it, a young girl becomes involved with the women's suffrage movement.[3] The novel's narrative follows a sequence of letters sent to the main character's friend. The second book in the series, Mollie on the March, was published in 2018.[4]
Carey's 2020 book, The Boldness of Betty, takes place in Dublin in 1913 during a labor strike.[5] In 2020, the book was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Children's Book of the Year in the Senior category.[6] The year after, it was shortlisted for the KPMG Children's Books Ireland Awards.[7]
Personal life
editCarey is married to author and Irish Times journalist Patrick Freyne.[6]
Selected works
editRebecca series
edit- The Real Rebecca (2011)
- Rebecca's Rules (2012)
- Rebecca Rocks (2013)
- Rebecca is Always Right (2014)[3]
Mollie series
editStandalone works
edit- The Boldness of Betty (2020)
References
edit- ^ a b c Rayner, Andrea (Winter 2013). "Carey, Anna: Rebecca Rocks". School Librarian. 61 (4): 236. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
- ^ "Review: Young Adult: Rebecca's Rules by Anna Carey". independent.ie. 22 September 2012. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
- ^ a b c d e Stock, Jennifer, ed. (2018). "Anna Carey". Something About the Author. Vol. 329. Gale. pp. 27–28.
- ^ "Mollie on the March". Kirkus Reviews. 16 July 2018. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
- ^ Hennessy, Claire (30 September 2020). "YA fiction: Children of Lir's Aífe tells her side of the story". The Irish Times. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
- ^ a b Doyle, Martin. "An Post Irish Book Awards 2020 shortlists revealed". The Irish Times. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
- ^ Doyle, Martin (11 March 2021). "Children's Books Ireland Awards; AIS creative writing award; Irish Times Eason offer". The Irish Times. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
- ^ Rose, Marion (February 2017). "The Making of Mollie". Historical Novels Review (79): 303. Retrieved 16 February 2021.