Kate Kerrigan is an author living and working in Ireland. Her novels are Recipes for a Perfect Marriage which was shortlisted for Romantic Novel of the Year in 2008 and been translated into 20 languages, (it is published under the name Morag prunty in the U.S) The Miracle of Grace, which has been adapted as a film script with funding from the Irish Film Board and Ellis Island, the first of a trilogy which was selected as a TV Book Club Summer Read in Britain and launched in the U.S. with Harper Collins in July 2011. Its sequel City of Hope and the final part Land of Dreams are all published in the U.K. with Land of Dreams due for release in the U.S. in October 2014.Her latest novel, The Lost Garden will be published in the U.K. in May 2014.Kate began her career as an editor and journalist, editing many of Britain's most successful young women's magazines under her birth name Morag Prunty before returning to her native Ireland in the 1990's. She writes a weekly column in the Irish Mail about her life in Killala, County Mayo - and contributes regularly to the RTE radio program Sunday Miscellany.www.katekerrigan.ieKate Kerrigan: what her peers say.This story is written with so much heart you can hear its beat and feel its pulse in every word on every page.Cecelia AhernRecipes for a Perfect Marriage is that most prized of things, a unique treatment of an old subject. Not only an extremely entertaining read, this wonderful novel is also chock fill of wisdom about all aspects of love and marriageCassandra KingThis is a wonderfully written and instantly engaging novel. But what's most impressive here is the wisdom about relationships. Recipes for a Perfect marriage should be required reading not only for those who are married or contemplating tying the knot, but for any person who longs to make any relationship work better.Elizabeth Berg