Coirle Mooney

Coirle Mooney grew up in the Burren perfumery, Ireland, in a house full of fragrant books and now lives in Kinvara, County Galway. After completing her MA and PhD in medieval and renaissance literature in University College Cork, she began working on what would become her debut novel, The Lady's Keeper, set in the court of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Her next two books are also set in medieval France and she is working on a series of novels based on seventeenth-century London playwrights.

She has always read widely and wrote her first murder mystery, Donald Duck is Dead, aged ten. She read Donald in instalments to her captivated (or captured) classmates. She has worked as a Shakespeare and English teacher and as an old and middle English tutor. Her focus is on storytelling and creating characters with emotional depth.