Kilcullen celebration tonight for Hazel's success

On the heels of achieving best seller listings in the New York Times and USA Today, Kilcullen author Hazel Gaynor will host an evening in Kilcullen Community Library tonight, 16 July, to celebrate her debut novel, 'The Girl Who Came Home', published in the US, the UK and Ireland in April, writes Brian Byrne.

The evening begins at 7.30pm and will include a short reading and a Q&A session where Hazel will speak about the research and writing of the novel, a work of fiction on the Titanic story with its foundation in the real lives of 14 people from a village in the west of Ireland who sailed on the doomed vessel.

Books will be available for purchase and signing and everybody is welcome. Refreshments will be provided.

The book is published in the US by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins, and in this part of the world by HarperCollins 365.

'The Girl' has been very well received by readers and critics alike, and this writer can personally commend it as a must-read. As previously reported here, Hazel's second book, 'A Memory of Violets', will be published in February 2015.

Hazel began her own voyage to author success with a blog written from her home in Kilcullen, 'Hot Cross Mum'. It's arguable that if she had been in charge of the Titanic's ill-fated journey, it would have reached America safely.