Margaret Hawkins lives and writes on a farm in Wexford. Her first book, Restless Spirit was based on the true story of Rose Quinn, a woman who died less than a year after being committed to a county asylum for having refused to enter an arranged marriage. Her debut novel, Deny Me Not is a tale of land and inheritance in contemporary Ireland. Published in 2013, it was described by the Irish Examiner as “an intelligent page-turner”. She is health columnist with the Irish Farmers Journal, a freelance writing consultant, and her radio essays have been broadcast on RTE’s Sunday Miscellany.
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