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Chloe Walsh

Chloe Walsh is an Irish novelist who writes new adult and adult contemporary romance, often centering mental health, trauma, and relationships. She is best known for the Boys of Tommen series, including Binding 13 and Keeping 13. A New York Times and USA Today bestseller, her work has been translated into multiple languages.

Biography & Author's Journey

Chloe Walsh is an Irish novelist whose work is rooted in County Cork, where she was born and raised and where she continues to live with her family. Her education was centered in a public mixed secondary school, and she has recalled English and history as strong subjects even while sport dominated much of her adolescence. She worked through school, played Gaelic football, camogie, basketball, and soccer, and wrote from an early age. A decisive turning point came in 2005, when, at 15 and in third year of secondary school, she spent months on suicide watch in a children’s ward and began writing down her memories and feelings. That private act of writing later became the emotional foundation of her fiction. ((https://prosecc0princessbl.wixsite.com/proseccoprincessblog/chloe-walsh))

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Writing saved my life
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I found peace. I found an escape
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I see you. I hear you. Me too
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Anybody reading my books probably knows by now that music is my jam
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Every character, scene, and book I write has a playlist
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