Cathy Kelly

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Cathy Kelly

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in Belfast, Ireland
September 12, 1966

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Born in Belfast but raised in Dublin, Cathy initially worked for thirteen years as a newspaper journalist with a national Irish Sunday newspaper, where she worked in news, features, along with spending time as an agony aunt and the paper’s film critic. However, her overwhelming love was always fiction and she published her first international bestseller, Woman To Woman, in 1997. She did not become a full-time writer until she had written another two books (She’s The One and Never Too Late) and finally decided to leave the world of journalism in 2001, moving to HarperCollins Publishers at the same time.

Someone Like You and What She Wants followed in successive years. Her sixth novel, Just Between Us, was her first Sunday Times number one bes...more


Average rating: 3.61 · 13,666 ratings · 972 reviews · 33 distinct works · Similar authors
Someone Like You
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 1,301 ratings — published 2000 — 17 editions
Always and Forever
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 1,226 ratings — published 2005 — 21 editions
Best of Friends
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 921 ratings — published 2003 — 17 editions
Homecoming
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 858 ratings — published 2010 — 19 editions
Just Between Us
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 793 ratings — published 2002 — 19 editions
Past Secrets
3.51 of 5 stars 3.51 avg rating — 855 ratings — published 2006 — 14 editions
Once In A Lifetime
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 770 ratings — published 2009 — 18 editions
Lessons In Heartbreak
3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 698 ratings — published 2009 — 16 editions
What She Wants
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 702 ratings — published 2001 — 16 editions
The House on Willow Street
3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 498 ratings — published 2012 — 11 editions
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“Do you know that an Irishman always respond to a question with another?"
And the Irish guy replies "Who told you that?”
Cathy Kelly, Never Too Late

“Closeness means you get hurt; closeness means letting down your defences and letting people see the tender skin under the carapace.”
Cathy Kelly, Never Too Late

“Just because women can bear children doesn't mean they're unable to harbour the same sort of career ambitions as a man.”
Cathy Kelly, Never Too Late

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