Anna carey biography

Irish writer, journalist, and musician

Anna Carey is an Irish author of young adult novels, and journalist and musician.^[1] Her first novel, The Real Rebecca, won the Children's Book of the Year (Senior Category) at the Irish Book Awards in ^[2]

Career

Carey toured and played with bands for 15 years, both as a singer and musician.

During that time, she recorded with the band El Diablo and appeared on two of their albums.^[1]

She later became a young adult writer. She wrote a series of books with a protagonist named Rebecca, including The Real Rebecca and its sequels, Rebecca's Rules, Rebecca Rocks and Rebecca is Always Right.^[3] The books are written in the form of collected diary entries.^[3][1]

She also wrote a historical fiction series, with the first book titled The Making of Mollie.

The book is set in Dublin in ; in it, a young girl becomes involved with the women's suffrage movement.