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CATHY Kelly, 46, is a top-selling Irish fiction writer who at one point out sold Dan Brown and JK Rowling.

But she is not about to let it go to her head. “Yes, I did beat them but I can safely say they had a long run at that point,” she says.

Previously a newspaper journalist, she now lives in the shadows of the Wicklow mountains with husband John Sheehan — former MD of Sony Music Ireland — and their nine-year-old twin boys, Murray and Dylan. The family shares their home with three jack russells.