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Everything is Beautiful - Book Cover

Coming April 2026

Everything that is Beautiful

For Niamh Ryan, the Foleys are family. Her childhood flew by on their farm, playing with her best friend Peter and his sister Kate - all the while being doted on by their mother Helen and coached by their father Liam, a legendary former hurling player.

Now, following a distressing series of events, the family ties are strained. Niamh receives drunken phone calls and messages from Peter who can't understand what derailed their burgeoning relationship three years ago. Meanwhile, Helen Foley is trying her best to escape her life by checking into guesthouses under the names of women she went to school with. In her life in Belfast, Kate is attempting to hold down a job and a relationship while carrying the weight of the family's secrets, and feeling like she is the one to blame.

As a family wedding looms, and the women find themselves face to face, the knotty love that still binds Niamh, Helen and Kate might just bring them back together again.

Told through the perspectives of three very different women, Everything That Is Beautiful unfolds the story of one complicated family in startlingly honest prose. By turns funny and deeply moving, and with unmatched emotional intelligence, this is an unforgettable story of love and family, heartbreak and hope - and who we might become after we pick up the pieces.

"I absolutely loved it... So realistic about the complexity of loving people who will break our hearts" — Marian Keyes

Winner — Newcomer of the Year, An Post Irish Book Awards 2021

Snowflake

Debbie White lives on a dairy farm with her mother, Maeve, and Billy, her uncle. Billy sleeps out in a caravan in the garden with a bottle of whiskey and the stars overhead for company. Maeve spends her days recording her dreams, which she believes to be prophecies.

This world is Debbie’s normal, but she is about to step into life as a student at Trinity College Dublin. As she navigates between new friends and the family bubble, things begin to unravel. Maeve’s eccentricity tilts into something darker, while Billy’s drinking gets worse. Debbie struggles to cope with the weirdest, most difficult parts of herself and her small life. But while the White family are quite mad, they are also each other’s true place of safety.

Snowflake is a story of messy families, messier friendships, and how new chapters often mean starting right back at the beginning.

Snowflake - Book Cover

Events

Belfast Launch of Everything that is Beautiful — Wednesday 8th April 2026 at the Crescent Arts Centre.

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Read Irish Women Event — Friday 10th April, 8pm at the Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire.

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Dublin Launch of Everything that is Beautiful — Tuesday 14th April, 6.30pm at Dubray Books, Grafton Street, Dublin.

All welcome, no booking required.

London Event in Foyles, Charing Cross
Monday 20th April at 7pm

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Louise Nealon - Portrait

About

Louise Nealon is a writer from County Kildare, Ireland. Her debut novel, Snowflake, was published in 2021. It won the Newcomer of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards and was chosen for the One Dublin One Book campaign in 2024.

Her second novel, Everything that is Beautiful, will be released in April 2026 in Ireland and the UK, and in August 2026 in the USA.

Get in Touch

I am represented by Marianne Gunn O'Connor. My books are published by Bonnier Books in Ireland, the UK and Australia, and by Harper Books in the US. Please contact my agent for rights queries here: info@mariannegunnoconnor.com. For anything else, please leave a message below.