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Evie Woods

Evie Woods is an Irish novelist whose fiction blends mystery, historical elements, and gentle magical realism. She is best known for The Lost Bookshop, an international bestseller, and for stories centered on books, memory, and self-discovery that have brought her a broad global readership.

Biographie et Parcours de l'Auteur

Evie Woods, the pen name of Galway-born writer Evie Gaughan, came to fiction by an indirect route. Raised in Galway, she has said that childhood periods in hospital helped make books a source of comfort and escape. She later studied business and marketing, spent a year in Toulouse on the Erasmus programme, and in her twenties lived and worked in Canada. A decisive turning point came when panic attacks and social anxiety forced her to reassess her life. Returning to Ireland, she found both solace and direction in reading, especially through authors such as Maeve Binchy and Marian Keyes, and then in Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way, which helped her begin to imagine writing as a real vocation.

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Citations

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Because the power of stories lies far beyond the pages
-The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods
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The Story Collector is the book I always wanted to write but couldn’t quite figure out where to begin
-The Book I Always Wanted to Write
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I am really determined
-The best-selling Irish author you may not have heard of
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I didn’t anticipate that, but creatively it’s just given me a greater vision for what I want to do
-The best-selling Irish author you may not have heard of
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Your voice is the most powerful thing you own and I wanted to use mine in a creative way
-Q&A: The Violin Maker’s Secret
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It was a world to escape to, out of reality
-Beginner’s pluck
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Rejections mean the story’s not strong enough, but it can be fixed
-Beginner’s pluck
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There are many books on craft, but not many on giving yourself permission to pursue a creative life
-My Life In Books
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Just write it. Write the hell out of it. Because people really do need your book
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"In short, Evie Woods is the best-selling Irish author you may never have heard of"

The Irish Times ((

"Evie Woods’s The Story Collector successfully weaves together fairy realms and drunken whims"

Irish Independent ((

"One More Chapter grabs four more from breakout star Evie Woods"

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"Evie Woods does a great job of seamlessly transitioning between characters, perspectives, and time periods each chapter which makes her books page turners"

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