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“I HAVE a phone in one hand and a baby in the other. Ring me back in three minutes.” Such is the hectic lifestyle of Ireland’s latest celebrity writer, Liz Allen.

The former Irish Independent journalist has just landed a huge publishing deal, earning a six-figure sum in the process, but Elise, her 11-month-old daughter, beckoned.

Ms Allen’s contract for her first novel, a crime thriller entitled Last to Know, is with the major British publishers Hodder and Stoughton. It is understood to be worth over 300,000 although she refused to confirm that figure yesterday.