All For You
When I was doing some research for All For You one of the people I was speaking to asked me if it was my feminist book. In some ways perhaps it is. Yet for me it’s really a book about realising who the important people in your life really are.
Lainey is a stunningly beautiful meteoroligist who presents the nightly weather forecast on TV and who’s universally adored by viewers. She’s also a romantic at heart and has been engaged twice already, although her search for Mr Right is ongoing. She was raised in Dublin by her grandparents and, after her grandfather’s death, has remained very close to her kind and wise grandmother, Madeleine.
Deanna, Lainey’s mother, is an internationally renowed feminist who has lived most of her life in the States and whose greatest regret (certainly in Lainey’s eyes) is that she had a beautiful rather than a brilliant daughter. Deanna is sharp and focussed and impatient with unncessary sentiment.
When Deanna returns to Ireland to work on a documentary on the feminist movement, she and Lainey are forced to spend more time in each other’s company than they ever have before. Lainey learns some long-kept secrets about her mother’s past and her ow unknown father, while Deanna realises that Lainey isn’t always as meek and biddable as she thought.
As mother and daughter get to know each other they unwittingly influence each other’s lives. The question both of them are asking is – is it for the better?
I really enjoyed working on All For You which goes from Dublin to California and from the current day to the 1980s. Both characters really got into my heart and I hope you’ll grow to love them as much as I did.
If you'd like to read some more of this book here's an extract
All For You (extract)
Here's a short video of me talking about the book:
Lainey is a stunningly beautiful meteoroligist who presents the nightly weather forecast on TV and who’s universally adored by viewers. She’s also a romantic at heart and has been engaged twice already, although her search for Mr Right is ongoing. She was raised in Dublin by her grandparents and, after her grandfather’s death, has remained very close to her kind and wise grandmother, Madeleine.
Deanna, Lainey’s mother, is an internationally renowed feminist who has lived most of her life in the States and whose greatest regret (certainly in Lainey’s eyes) is that she had a beautiful rather than a brilliant daughter. Deanna is sharp and focussed and impatient with unncessary sentiment.
When Deanna returns to Ireland to work on a documentary on the feminist movement, she and Lainey are forced to spend more time in each other’s company than they ever have before. Lainey learns some long-kept secrets about her mother’s past and her ow unknown father, while Deanna realises that Lainey isn’t always as meek and biddable as she thought.
As mother and daughter get to know each other they unwittingly influence each other’s lives. The question both of them are asking is – is it for the better?
I really enjoyed working on All For You which goes from Dublin to California and from the current day to the 1980s. Both characters really got into my heart and I hope you’ll grow to love them as much as I did.
If you'd like to read some more of this book here's an extract
All For You (extract)
Here's a short video of me talking about the book:
