Christine Breen

Christine was raised in New York and educated in Boston and Dublin. In addition to being a writer, Christine is an artist, homeopath and garden designer. Along with her husband, the novelist Niall Williams, she co-authored four bestselling non-fiction books on country living in County Clare, which were published by Soho Press in New York. O COME YE BACK TO IRELAND is now available as an ebook.In 2002, Christine and her family travelled around the world for 9 months. A travel memoir, SO MANY MIKES TO PARADISE was published in Ireland the following year, and is now also available as an ebook. At various times Christine has been a houseplant doctor for Neiman Marcus, a copyeditor for 'The American Journal of Medicine', an administrator of writing workshops, the author of a monthly column ‘The View from Kiltumper’, and the founder of an artist cooperative and gallery where she sold her paintings. She currently lives in the townland of Kiltumper in the west of Ireland and misses her two children who live in NY and London. HER NAME IS ROSE is Christine Breen’s first novel and will be published by St. Martin’s Press, New York, in 2015.