Born in New York and educated in Boston and Dublin. In addition to being a writer, Christine is an artist, homeopath and garden designer. Her columns on travel, gardening and health have appeared in Ireland and America. Along with her husband, the novelist Niall Williams, she co-authored four bestselling non-fiction books on country living in County Clare, which were published by Soho Press. (The first one is called 'O Come Ye Back to Ireland'.) In 2002, Christine and her family travelled around the world for 9 months. A travel memoir, 'So Many Miles to Paradise', was published the following year, and is now available as an ebook. At various times Christine has been a houseplant doctor for Neiman Marcus, a copyeditor for The American Journal of Medicine, an administrator of writing workshops, the author of a monthly column 'The View from Kiltumper', and the founder of an artist cooperative and gallery where she sold her paintings. 'Her Name is Rose' is Christine Breen's first novel and will be published by St.Martin's Press, New York, in 2015.