One of Ireland's most exciting new writers Shauna Gilligan will be launching her novel'Happiness Comes from Nowhere.  at 6.30pm, Wednesday, 12th September 2012 at  Irish Writers’ Centre, Parnell Square, Dublin.
The Launch will be performed by Nuala Ní Chonchúir


 Shauna will be giving a reading at the October meeting of the  Meath Writers Circle


Born in Dublin, Ireland, Shauna has worked and lived in Mexico, Spain, India and the UK. She holds an MA in History from University College Dublin having also studied English as an undergraduate. She is currently completing a PhD in Writing at the University of Glamorgan, Wales. As part of her research, she is examining suicide and writing processes in a selection of novels by and in a series of interviews with Irish writer Desmond Hogan.
Her work has been published in New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing and in The Ulster Tatler's Literary Miscellany. She has given public readings of her fiction in Ireland and USA and has presented on writing at academic conferences in Ireland, UK, Germany and USA.
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Happiness Comes From Nowhere follows the lives of the Horn family: Mary, Sepp and Dirk. Their paths cross and intertwine with those of extended family, friends and acquaintances as journeys are made through the changing city of Dublin. People also venture further in search of happiness: Mary and Dirk wander the streets of Rome and Ita watches a cargo ship unload in Spain. Expressed in ways as different as suicide, art and sex, the inseparable pangs of loss and happiness – remembered and present – are threaded through the novel.

Reviews

“Fresh and original…Shauna Gilligan is a name to watch.” Sue Leonard, The Irish Examiner







Born in Dublin, Ireland, Shauna has worked and lived in Mexico, Spain, India and the UK. She holds an MA in History from University College Dublin having also studied English as an undergraduate. She is currently completing a PhD in Writing at the University of Glamorgan, Wales. As part of her research, she is examining suicide and writing processes in a selection of novels by and in a series of interviews with Irish writer Desmond Hogan.

Her work has been published in New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing and in The Ulster Tatler's Literary Miscellany. She has given public readings of her fiction in Ireland and USA and has presented on writing at academic conferences in Ireland, UK, Germany and USA.



Happiness comes from Nowhere is her first book to be published.

Shauna will also be launching our children's book,'Golden Rhymes in October