About the Author

Fidelma’s earlier novels Sweet Lemons (Poolbeg Press, 2021) https://shorturl.at/gksOT and Because He Loved Her (Poolbeg Press, 2022) https://amzn.to/3HNe9wt both feature the island of Sicily as a setting.

She has contributed health and property features to the Irish Times and social commentary features to the Sunday Business Post Magazine.

Previous work has been shortlisted for the RTĒ Radio 1 Francis MacManus Short Story Award.

She was a winner in the Irish Writers’ Centre Novel Fair competition in 2017 and has been a finalist in the Memoir and Personal Essay category at Write by the Sea Kilmore Quay Literary Festival in 2021 and 2023.

In her fiction, Fidelma is fascinated by people.  What motivates them?  What causes them to form the relationships they do? Is sexual attraction only ever temporary?  Or is female friendship all it’s cracked up to be?  Plenty of stimulating fodder in her writing for your Book Club!

She adores anchoring her stories in communal settings – where the interplay between characters is seen at its best.  She particularly enjoys toying with the notion that various participants in the same event, will each perceive and interpret what happened in a different way.

Her most recent publication, One More Time, (Poolbeg Press, 2024) https://buff.ly/3TzZESD reprises the story of Isabelle and Rico from Sweet Lemons (2021) and follows them in a manner of which David Nicholls (One Day) would approve.

But it’s European cities and operas that see these lovers link up, not significant dates! One More Time is a love story in the true sense of the word. You’ll have privileged back-stage access into the world of opera, a glimpse at the difficulties its participants experience in trying to live ‘normal lives’. Your heart will break at the choices Isabelle and Rico have to make – and at the repercussions of their 18-year-long passion.

If you enjoyed the recent film ‘Maestro’ or the TV adaptation of Nicholls’ One Day, then you are going to love One More Time.