Felicity Hayes-McCoy is a USA Today bestselling Irish author and actress, best known for her Finfarran Peninsula series of books. Set in a fictional county on Ireland's West Coast, the Finfarran novels have been described as "a delicious feast," "sunshine on the page," and "charming and heartwarming" by several bestselling authors. Hayes-McCoy's latest book, a standalone novel titled 'The Keepsake Quilters', was published in October 2022 to critical acclaim, with Irish authors and television presenters praising it as a "perfect festive read," "warm and wise," and "beautifully-crafted."
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\nHayes-McCoy's Finfarran series includes 'The Library at the Edge of The World' (2016), 'Summer at The Garden Café' (2017), 'The Mistletoe Matchmaker' (2017), 'The Month of Borrowed Dreams' (2018), 'The Transatlantic Book Club' (2019), 'The Heart of Summer' (2020), and 'The Year of Lost and Found' (2021). The series has been translated into seven languages and is available in English as ebooks and audiobooks. Her first memoir, 'The House on an Irish Hillside' (2012), chronicles her life in London and her return to a remarkable stone house on the Dingle peninsula in Ireland, where she first studied the Irish language as a teenager.
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\nIn addition to her memoirs and the Finfarran series, Hayes-McCoy has also written 'Enough Is Plenty: The Year on the Dingle Peninsula' (2015), 'A Woven Silence: Memory, History & Remembrance' (2015), and 'Dingle and Its Hinterland: People, Places and Heritage' (2017), a cultural guide to Ireland's Dingle Peninsula, co-authored with her husband, Wilf Judd. Her work has been praised for its wisdom, humor, and blazingly beautiful prose, capturing the essence of Irish life and culture.