Arklow author and cancer survivor Elaine Murphy holds her debut novel ‘See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil’.
Asking for a laptop as she lay in a hospital bed during a frightening cancer ordeal, Wicklow woman Elaine Murphy could hardly have imagined that those first taps on the keyboard would lead to her debut work of fiction, See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, a Garden County mystery born from the darkest chapter of her life.
Arklow resident Elaine did not come to authorship by a conventional route, although the creative spark was there long before her battle with illness. Her father, “a very creative man”, filled her younger years with poems and stories, planting a seed that, years later, would help her overcome self-doubt and put her own words out into the world.