Mum-of-two Cat Hogan follows her destiny to pen debut novel

From waiting tables to charging up the bestseller list, meet debut author and mother-of-two Cat Hogan who, in 2015, traded her apron in for a pen.

“The Irish bestseller list, I hit the list one week after my launch. Jessie Burton, who wrote The Miniaturist, she sold one more book than me that week — she’s huge, it was surreal,” Hogan told the Irish Examiner.

Her debut novel, They All Fall Down, has just been published to rave reviews, from readers and acclaimed authors such as Eoin Colfer and Paul O’Brien, but a career in writing was not always on the cards for Hogan.