Ann Devine, Ready for Her Close-Up
  • Published: 14 March 2019
  • ISBN: 9781473549845
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368
Categories:
Share…

Ann Devine, Ready for Her Close-Up

Formats & editions
EBook
14 Mar 2019
Paperback
9 Jan 2020
Buy from…
Amazon Apple Books Google Play Kobo Booktopia eBooks.com

Meet Ann Devine: Irish mammy, reluctant local activist and unlikely heroine. The first in a hilarious new series of comic novels from the bestselling author of the Irish Mammies books.

Warm, charming and laugh-out-loud funny… Ann Devine, Ready For Her Close-Up is a little ray of sunshine, sure to delight' Irish Independent


Meet Ann Devine, a riddle, wrapped up in a fleece, inside a Skoda Octavia.

Now that her youngest has flown the nest, Ann finds herself at a loose end. Until, that is, she is put forward for the Kilsudgeon Tidy Towns Committee.

Yet all is not neat and tidy in Kilsudgeon. There are strange sightings of people who aren't local driving 4x4s with a yellow reg, a man bun requesting kefir in the restaurant and a quad bike at a funeral.

What does this have to do with rumours of a brand new television series to rival Game of Thrones? And what will it all mean for Kilsudgeon's newly proposed town park?

A lot, as it happens.

As the town begins to fill up with the film crew, extras and a Hollywood star who is fond of the drink, everyone welcomes the chance to make a few bob and to finally get enough broadband to send an attachment.

Or nearly everyone. Harmony is threatened when the newcomers seem to be doing more damage than good and the last straw is when Ann’s pride and joy - a floral arrangement in a boat - is trashed. She’s about to discover what it means to go viral…
  • Published: 14 March 2019
  • ISBN: 9781473549845
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368
Categories:
Share…

About the author

Colm O'Regan

Colm O’Regan is a columnist, broadcaster, comedian and author. He has published four books of non-fiction – the three bestselling books of Irish Mammies and Bolloxology – and published his first novel, Ann Devine: Ready for Her Close-Up in 2019. Ann Devine: Handle with Care is his second novel. Originally from Cork, he now lives in Dublin with his wife Marie and daughters Ruby and Lily.

Also by Colm O'Regan

Ann Devine: Handle With Care
Bolloxology
It's Earlier 'Tis Getting: The Christmas Book of Irish Mammies
That's More Of It Now
Isn't It Well For Ye?: The Book of Irish Mammies
See all

Praise for Ann Devine, Ready for Her Close-Up

Everybody knows an Ann Devine ... It's hard to write a book that's funny the whole way through, consistently funny with belly laughs ... but Colm has done that

Aine Toner, Ireland AM

Laugh-out-loud

Irish Daily Mail

O’Regan taps into the wild, weird and woolly

RTÉ Guide

Warm, charming and laugh-out-loud funny… Ann Devine, Ready For Her Close-Up is a little ray of sunshine, sure to delight

Irish Independent

Warm-spirited, funny, dark when it needs to be, and – most importantly – underwritten by a scalpel-sharp ear for how Irish people really speak…O’Regan never gets it wrong

Sunday Business Post

Ann Devine brings a smile to the face of rural Ireland…O’Regan satirises small-town Ireland with both affection and deadpan wit

Sunday Times

This book captures something warm and wholesome … it feels indulgent and reminds the reader of home. Prepare to laugh and grimace at the antics of the Irish Mammy

Irish Times