# Patricia Scanlan

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Irish writer

Patricia Scanlan Born 1956 (age 69–70) Dublin, Ireland Pen name Patricia Scanlan Occupation Writer Nationality Irish

**Patricia Scanlan** (born 1956) is an Irish novelist of over 20 books.

## Biography

Scanlan was born in [Dublin](/source/Dublin) where she still lives. She was a Dublin City librarian for 17 years. While she was working, Scanlan was also writing her first novel because she was short of money. That book was published in 1992. Since then, she has published 19 novels, short stories, poems and edited anthologies. She is based in [Clontarf](/source/Clontarf%2C_Dublin).[1][2][3]

Scanlan is the creator of the [Open Door Series](/source/Open_Door_Series) for adult literacy and teaches creative writing to secondary school age girls.[4]

## Bibliography

- City Girl (1992)

- City Lives (1999)

- City Woman (1993)

- Second Chance (2000)

- Secrets (2006)

- Forgive and Forget (2008)

- Happy Ever After (2009)

- Love and Marriage (2011)

- Apartment 3B (1991)

- Finishing Touches (1992)

- Foreign Affairs (1994)

- Promises, Promises (1996)

- Mirror Mirror (1997)

- Two for Joy (2001)

- Francesca's Party (2001)

- Double Wedding (2004)

- Divided Loyalties (2006)

- Coming Home (2009)

- With All My Love (2013)

- Coming Home... for Christmas (2014)

- A Time For Friends (2015)

- Orange Blossom Days (2018)[5]

- The Liberation of Brigid Dunne (2020)[6]

### Collections

- Selected Poems (poems) (1993)

- Foreign Affairs / City Woman (1997)

- Reeling in slow motion (poems) (2002)

- Winter Blessings (2005)

- A Gift For You (2015)

### Novellas

- Ripples (1999)

- Fair-weather Friend (2004)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["First Encounters: Patricia Scanlan and Aidan Storey"](http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/first-encounters-patricia-scanlan-and-aidan-storey-1.2182629). *[The Irish Times](/source/The_Irish_Times)*. 2015.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Books: Scanlan's collection of stories that find drama in the truly undramatic"](http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/book-reviews/books-scanlans-collection-of-stories-that-find-drama-in-the-truly-undramatic-34174188.html). 2015.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Biography of the Author Patricia Scanlon"](http://www.harlequin.com/author.html?authorid=1062). Harlequin.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Patricia Scanlan"](https://web.archive.org/web/20160423015504/http://www.nationalgallery.ie/en/Exhibitions/Lines_of_Vision/Patricia_Scanlan.aspx). National Gallery. Archived from [the original](http://www.nationalgallery.ie/en/Exhibitions/Lines_of_Vision/Patricia_Scanlan.aspx) on 23 April 2016. Retrieved 3 April 2016.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** [*Orange Blossom Days*](https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Orange-Blossom-Days/Patricia-Scanlan/9781501181030). 6 March 2018. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-5011-8103-0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-5011-8103-0).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** [*The Liberation of Brigid Dunne*](https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Liberation-of-Brigid-Dunne/Patricia-Scanlan/9781501181054). 10 March 2020. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-5011-8105-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-5011-8105-4).

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