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Tom Galvin

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Author and journalist and passionate musician living in Ireland with my Polish wife, Asia, and twin babies, Alex and Alicia. Lived in Poland as a teacher and journalist between 1994-1999 and returned home to Ireland to write a book on Polish experience, There's an Egg in My Soup. First novel published in 2011, Gabriel's Gate, a dark thriller set on a commune in recession-era Ireland. Two other novels written: White Skin, Black Hearts, a travelscape thriller set in Mexico; and The Russian Doll, a drama with an 'existential romance' set in the US and in the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad.

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Tom Galvin Carly wrote: "Hey Tom, Thanks for the friendship :)"

Hi Carly -- and thanking you too! Checked out your blog -- looks great! Will tweet it later on. Cheers. Tom


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