Her father receives her first, passionate loyalty, but she comes to love her Norman husband and children with equal intensity. In Chadwick’s novel, Aoife is a strong, determined and loving woman. He brings an army to help Diarmait reclaim his lands, and the bargain is sealed by his marriage to Aoife. As the son of a traitor, he seeks to secure his position with Henry and carve out more territory for himself. That assistance comes in the form of Richard de Clare, Earl of Striguil.

When her family is forced to flee, her father Diarmait MacMurchada seeks help from King Henry II of England. As the daughter of an Irish king, Aoife is brought up in a violent, unstable world where internecine warfare is an ever-present reality. To contact Aoife you can email her at Facebook: Blog: author brings medieval Ireland alive with her trademark mix of engaging characters, high politics, and romance. Now with her first novel published and taking first place for Eden Forest with Writers Got Talent 2013, Aoife continues to write tales of fantasy and is currently working on her third book for the Saskia Trilogy amongst other new works. Poison study one of her favourite books has been read and re-read countless times.Īoife’s first book Eden Forest (Part one of the Saskia Trilogy) came to be after a dream of a man and woman on a black horse jumping through a wall of fire and the idea of Saskia was born. Realising she needed to get a real job (What writing isn’t) she studied accountancy and qualified working in that field for many years, until her passion for reading returned and she found Maria V Snyder. Aoife won first place for two of her poems and had them published at a young age of just nineteen.

It was something she did throughout her teens and into her twenties. Introducing Aoife Marie Sheridan, author of “ Eden Forest“, Book One of the Saskia TrilogyĮden Forest: Book One of the Saskia Trilogy by Aoife Marie SheridanĬity of Secrets: Book Two of the Saskia Trilogy by Aoife Marie SheridanĪoife Marie Sheridan has l oved reading from a very young age, starting off with mills and boon’s books, given to by her grandmother her love for romances grew, by the age of 14 she had read hundreds of them.Īoife had a passion for writing poetry or in her eyes her journal entries.

City of Secrets by Aoife Marie Sheridan