Through her acute and thoughtful take on issues of truth-telling, McLaughlin reminds us that the novel remains a good mode to investigate our relationship to truth, in part because as a made-up form … Read more
The Snow Globe – Irish Times 29 December 2020
Delighted to have this story published by the Irish Times Read the story here … Read more
The Art of Falling – novel publication 2021
So excited to have my debut novel The Art of Falling coming out in January/February 2021! Grateful to my agent Lucy Luck, my editors Kate Medina and Erica Gonzalez at Random House and Mark Richards … Read more
Publishers Weekly starred review – This engaging and evocative work will stay with readers.
McLaughlin’s remarkable debut novel...McLaughlin’s descriptions of the art and its appeal have an almost mythic quality...and she has a gift for precise characterization. This engaging and evocative … Read more
Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award 2019
Absolutely thrilled to have won the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award 2019 … Read more
New York Radio Awards 2019
I was very happy with the dramatisation by RTE Radio 1 of my short story The Art of Foot-Binding. It recently took Silver for Best Writing at the New York Radio Awards. You can listen to it here: … Read more
