Lisa Carey’s critically acclaimed novels include The Mermaids Singing, In the Country of the Young, Love in the Asylum, which won a Massachusetts Book Award, and Every Visible Thing, which won a Lambda Literary Award for Fiction. Her fifth and most recent novel, The Stolen Child, came out earlier this month from HarperPerennial. After living in Ireland for five years, she now resides in Portland, Maine, with her husband and son, and returns to Ireland whenever she can. (Author photograph by Patricia Walsh) 

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