Anna Carey

Anna Carey is an Irish Book Award-winning novelist, journalist, editor and scriptwriter who spent her teens and twenties playing in bands.
She is the author of seven acclaimed novels for young adults. Her debut novel The Real Rebecca wonthe Senior Children's Book of the Year prize at the 2011 Irish Book Awards and her last book The Boldness of Betty was shortlisted for the same award in 2020. Her drama podcast The Famine Monologues was released by RTÉ in 2021 and her play The Making of Mollie was staged in 2024.
Our Song, her first book for adults, published in June 2025 and was shortlisted for Popular Fiction Book of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards.
Her second romance novel, Love Scene, will publish in summer 2026.
She is married to her former bandmate Patrick Freyne and lives in Dublin.