Journeys with words - Niamh Boyce.
b'Niamh Boyce is an award-winning novelist and poet. The Kildare native\\u2019s first book, The Herbalist (2013), was an instant success. The Irish Times called it, \\u201cThe most entertaining yet substantial historical novel since Joseph O\\u2019Connor\\u2019s Star of the Sea.\\u201d\\nInside the Wolf (2018), her first collection of verse was met with similar positivity. Nuala O\\u2019Connor said, \\u201cIn these clever, concise poems, Niamh Boyce resurrects the ancestors who gifted her a legacy of words\\u2026Boyce has the artist\\u2019s unpeeled eye: she dissects fairy tales and reassembles them with colour, menace and wit.\\u201d\\nNiamh Boyce lives with her family in Ballylinan, Co Laois. She is currently working on her third novel, a collection of short fiction and a non-fiction book.\\nhttp://niamhboyce.blogspot.com/'