Meet Amanda Cassidy — the Irish crime writer about to take off internationally

Snapped up by the publishing house behind global smash hit ‘Big Little Lies’, Amanda Cassidy has landed one of the biggest international book deals in recent years for an Irish author. She chats to Gemma Fullam

Amanda Cassidy at her home in Foxrock, Dublin. Photo: Gareth Chaney

Bestselling novelist Amanda Cassidy is a dreamer. She’s always been a dreamer — but a dreamer with a streak of pragmatism. “I don’t wait to be hit by inspiration. I sit down and do the work. Because it is work,” she says of her writing.

“But what’s really driven me is that I want my children to see what’s possible. I want them to know that expression matters, and that you can dream, but you can also deliver and you can also get paid for it all at once.”