June Considine

This article is about the writer. For the actress, see Laura Elliot.

June Considine
Born
June Bolger
NationalityIrish

June Considine is a best selling Irish children's author and novelist. She also uses the pen name Laura Elliot.

Biography

Born June Bolger, Considine grew up in Finglas, Dublin. She has written for adults and children. She writes under her own name and using the pen name Laura Elliot. She has written solo novels, series and short stories. She has been published in anthologies and her work has appeared on the radio. She also worked as an editor and journalist as well as a ghost writer.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

Her work was shortlisted for the Hennessy Literary Award and for the Bisto awards. Considine lives in Malahide, County Dublin.[1][2][5][6][7]

Bibliography

Zentyre

  • When the Luvenders Came to Merrick Town (1990)
  • Luvenders At the Old Mill (1990)
  • Island of Luvenders (1991)

Beachwood

  • Algarve Blues (1995)
  • The Debs Ball (1993)
  • The School Bully (1993)
  • The Slumber Party (1993)
  • Summer At Fountain Square (1993)
  • Puppet Strings (1994)
  • Twelve Days of Christmas and Thereafter

Novels

  • View from a Blind Bridge (1992)
  • The Glass Triangle (1994)
  • When the Bough Breaks (2002) later renamed Fragile Lies.
  • Deceptions (2004) later renamed Sleep Sister.

Novels as Laura Elliot

  • The Prodigal Sister (2009)
  • Stolen Child (2010)
  • Fragile Lies (2015)
  • The Betrayal (2015)
  • Sleep Sister (2016)
  • Guilty (2017)
  • The Wife Before Me (2018)
  • The Thorn Girl (2019)
  • The Silent House (2020)
  • After The Wedding (2022)
  • The Marriage Retreat (2023)

She is published in Ireland and the UK by Bookouture, Sphere and Avon, and in the US by Grand Central Publishing. She is a founder member of WORD, a group of professional writers who meet quarterly to discuss issues of mutual interest, and also a founder member of Irish PEN/Pen na hEireann, which was relaunched in November 2020.

References and sources

  1. ^ a b "June Considine – Sea Change". The Galway Review. 14 April 2014. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b "June Considine [writer] : The Lisa Richards Agency". The Lisa Richards Agency. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  3. ^ "The Pause that Changed Everything by June Considine aka Laura Elliot". Writing.ie. 30 March 2016. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  4. ^ "June Considine". Fantastic Fiction. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  5. ^ a b "June Considine". Ricorso. 13 July 2002. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  6. ^ a b ""My sister took the place of our mother"". The Irish Times. 5 January 2020. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  7. ^ a b Unknown (17 December 2004). "Top novelist at the launch of his sister's new book". Independent.ie. Retrieved 8 January 2020.