Jean Grainger was born in Cork, Ireland. She has been a tour guide of her beloved home country, a teacher, a university lecturer and a playwright. She began writing fiction at the suggestion of her clients on tours, many of whom were sure all the stories she told them would make for a great book. Her first book, The Tour, has become a Number 1 bestseller on Amazon. It tells the story of a disparate group of American visitors to Ireland, who, along with their Irish tour guide have a life changing experience in the magical Emerald Isle. Her second book, So Much Owed, is a family saga set during the Second World War. The story centres on the Buckley family of West Cork and how their lives are pulled in different directions as they become embroiled in the war. It is a sweeping family saga of intrigue and romance against the background of occupied Europe. In her third novel, Shadow of a Century, she tells a tale of a battered old flag found in New York in 2016, a century after it was used during the Easter Rising, when Ireland made her final bid for freedom from Great Britain. This tells the story of a journalist who uncovers a story, one with much more to it than a flag. Her fourth novel, due out in Spring 2016, Under Heaven’s Shining Stars, is set in the 1970s in Cork, Ireland and is a novel about friendship. Three boys, Liam, Patrick and Hugo, though from very different backgrounds are united in a deep but often times challenging friendship. As their lives progress, only by staying strong, can they prevail. Or fail. Her novella, Letters of Freedom, tells the story of Carmel, stuck in a pointless marriage, when a figure from her past emerges and changes everything with a ‘like’ on Facebook. This quick read will touch your heart. She lives in Cork with her husband and her two youngest children. The older two come home occasionally with laundry and to raid the fridge.
Series
Books
Rivers of Wrath
2023
The Carmel Sheehan Story #1-3
2018
Yesterday's Paper
2024
The Trouble With Secrets
The Kilteegan Bridge Story
2022
The Star and the Shamrock
2019
A Beautiful Ferocity
2023
The Harp and the Rose
The Queenstown Series - Book 3
2021
Last Port of Call
2021
The Hard Way Home
2021
The Queenstown Series Boxset 2
Books 3 and 4
2022
Roaring Liberty
2022
Sisters of the Southern Cross
2020
For All The World
2023
Chancing your Arm
2024
Trials and Tribulations
2019
The Mags Munroe Series Boxset 1
Book 1 and 2
2022
The Tour Series #3-6
2020
Return to Robinswood
2019
The World Starts Anew
2020
Under Heaven's Shining Stars
2016
Sincerely Grace
The Knocknashee Series - Book 4
2025
The Homecoming of Bubbles O'Leary
2018
Growing Wild in the Shade
A Mags Munroe Story
2022
Closer than you think
2024
Safe at the Edge of the World
2017
The Star and the Shamrock Boxset 2
Books 3 and 4
2022
The Tour
2013
More Harm Than Good
The Kilteegan Bridge Story - Book 3
2022
What Will Be Will Be
2018
The Future's Not Ours To See
2017
What Divides Us
The Kilteegan Bridge Story - Book 2
2022
Each To Their Own
A Mags Munroe Story
2023
A Silent Understanding
The Kilteegan Bridge Story - Book 5
2023
Shadow of a Century
2015
The Queenstown Series Boxset 1
Books 1 and 2
2022
The Star and the Shamrock Trilogy #1-3
2020
The West's Awake
2021
The Tour Boxset 2 - Book 3 and 4
The Story of Grenville King and The Homecoming of Bubbles O'Leary
2021
Letters of Freedom
The Carmel Sheehan Story - Book 1
2016
Folded Corners
The Knocknashee Series - Book 5 - Large Print
2025
So Much Owed
2013
What Once Was True
2018
Kayla's Trick
The Tour Series Book 6
2020
Catriona's War
2019
History's Pages
The Knocknashee Story - Book 3
2025
Lilac Ink
The Knocknashee Story
2024
The Existential Worries of Mags Munroe
The Mags Munroe Series
2022
The Gem of Ireland's Crown
2024
The Emerald Horizon
2019
The Robinswood Story
2019
The Darkest Hour
2018
Finding Billie Romano
2019
When Irish Eyes Are Lying
The Kilteegan Bridge Story - Book 4
2023
The Story of Grenville King
2017
