June Considine

June Considine is a best selling Irish children's author and novelist. She also uses the pen name Laura Elliot.

This article is about the writer. For the actress, see Laura Elliot.
June Considine
Born
June Bolger
NationalityIrish

Biography

June Considine grew up in Finglas, Dublin Ireland. Considine has written for adults and children. She writes under her own name and using the pen name Laura Elliot. She has written solo novels, series and short stories. She's been published in anthologies and her work has appeared on the radio. She also worked as an editor and journalist as well as a ghost writer.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

Her work has won the Hennessy Literary Award and been shortlisted for the Bisto awards. Considine lives in Malahide, County Dublin.[1][2][5][6][7]

Bibliography

Zentyre
  • When the Luvenders Came to Merrick Town (1990)
  • Luvenders At the Old Mill (1990)
  • Island of Luvenders (1991)

Beachwood
  • Algarve Blues (1995)
  • The Debs Ball (1993)
  • The School Bully (1993)
  • The Slumber Party (1993)
  • Summer At Fountain Square (1993)
  • Puppet Strings (1994)
  • Twelve Days of Christmas and Thereafter

Novels
  • View from a Blind Bridge (1992)
  • The Glass Triangle (1994)
  • When the Bough Breaks (2002) later renamed Fragile Lies.
  • Deceptions (2004) later renamed Sleep Sister.

Novels as Laura Elliot
  • The Prodigal Sister (2009)
  • Stolen Child (2010)
  • Fragile Lies (2015)
  • The Betrayal (2015)
  • Sleep Sister (2016)
  • Guilty (2017)
  • The Wife Before Me (2018)
  • The Thorn Girl (2019)

References and sources
  1. "June Considine – Sea Change". The Galway Review. 2014-04-14. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
  2. "June Considine [writer] : The Lisa Richards Agency". The Lisa Richards Agency. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
  3. "The Pause that Changed Everything by June Considine aka Laura Elliot". Writing.ie. 2016-03-30. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
  4. "June Considine". Fantastic Fiction. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
  5. "June Considine". Ricorso. 2002-07-13. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
  6. ""My sister took the place of our mother"". The Irish Times. 2020-01-05. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
  7. Unknown (2004-12-17). "Top novelist at the launch of his sister's new book". Independent.ie. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
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