A Good Enough Mother

Join award winning author Catherine Dunne as she talks about her new book A Good Enough Mother with author Claire Hennessy.

Catherine Dunne is the author of twelve novels, several essays and one work of non-fiction. An Unconsidered People documents the lived experience of some half a million Irish immigrants to Britain in the dismal years of the 1950s. Catherine’s novels have been shortlisted for a number of prizes, including Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards and the International Strega Prize. The Things We Know Now won the Giovanni Boccaccio International Prize for Fiction in 2013 and The Years That Followed, published in 2016, was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. 

Her latest novel, A Good Enough Mother, won the European Rapallo Prize for fiction in November 2023, and was published in English by Betimes Books in June 2024.

Her work has been translated into several languages. She was the recipient of the 2018 Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature and is a member of Aosdána. 

Claire Hennessy is a writer, book critic, editor, and creative writing facilitator from Dublin. She is the author of twelve YA novels, and her debut short story collection for adults will be published in spring 2025.