Rachel Donohue lives in Dublin, Ireland, where she works in communication and media relations.
In 2017 she won the Hennessy New Irish Writer of the Year Award for her short fiction.
The Temple House Vanishing, her first novel, explores "the dynamics of desire in an oppressive, conservative catholic boarding school in Ireland in the early 1990s."
At CrimeReads Donohue tagged seven favorite “coming-of-age” novels that have elements of mystery or the supernatural, including:
Everything I Never Told You, Celeste NgRead about the other entries on the list.
Questions of identity, race and family thread through this extremely thoughtful excavation of a teenager’s death in the 1970s. It’s a book about absences and failure, both real and imagined, and of the gulf between people, even those who live under the same roof.
--Marshal Zeringue
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