Clár Ní Chonghaile

Irish author Clár Ní Chonghaile grew up in An Spidéal, County Galway before leaving after
college to join Reuters in London as a trainee journalist. Clár has been a reporter and editor for
over 30 years, and she has lived and worked in Spain, France, Ivory Coast, Senegal and Kenya. 
Her books deal with themes of belonging, identity, memory and war. Clár explores the grey areas
of life where good and evil are intertwined and she is fascinated by the ability of the human spirit
to endure. Much of her writing is inspired by the stories she heard and the people she met during
her journalism career; she has interviewed rebels on the bullet-strewn streets of Monrovia in
Liberia, walked the red carpet at the Cannes film festival, run from tear gas during protests in
European capitals and interviewed displaced people in camps in Mogadishu, Somalia.

Clár’s debut novel Fractured (2016) is set in Somalia, and her second, Rain Falls on Everyone
(2017), takes place mainly in Dublin and Rwanda. Her third novel, The Reckoning (2018), is
partly set in St Albans between the World Wars and it was a joy to research.

 Her fourth novel, No Good Deed (2023), is set in the Central African Republic and features
child soldiers, mercenaries and an English clinical psychologist determined to do good. Irish
reviewer Anne Cunningham said: “The author is an established novelist with an impeccable back
catalogue … There should be more pot-banging being indulged in about this exquisitely written
and deeply compassionate novel.”

Find out more about Clár here: 
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Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14357079.Cl_r_N_Chonghaile