About the Author

Kathleen Murray was born in Carlow and educated at Trinity College Dublin. She has had short fiction published in The Stinging Fly, The Moth, Dublin Review, Prairie Schooner, Winter Papers, and various anthologies. In 2007 she was the first Irish winner of the Fish Short Story Prize. Her story 'Storm Glass' was a finalist for the 2011 Davy Byrne Short Story Award. This is her first novel.

Reviews

‘Brilliant, full of vitality and voice … Kathleen Murray is a masterful writer of dialogue.’ – KEVIN BARRY ‘A flat-out page-turner. There's so much here to delight in – fizzing dialogue, offbeat characters, flights of fancy and mad escapades […] Kathleen has the guts to take on what's miraculous and eerie, and spins Frank's story shrewdly, irreverently, and fondly.’ – LISA McINERNEY ‘So much to admire in The Deadwood Encore: a free-wheeling, demotic freshness of manner, a sustained emotional intensity – and a small Irish town brought to life with vividness and bone-dry wit. What a remarkable debut from Kathleen Murray.’ – NEIL HEGARTY The Deadwood Encore is a warm, thoughtful, funny novel from a wise, inventive and gifted new writer.’ – LIA MILLS