{"id":326592,"date":"2026-03-03T11:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T11:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/326592\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T11:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T11:58:13","slug":"meet-the-debut-irish-author-whose-book-has-just-been-chosen-by-good-morning-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/326592\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the debut Irish author whose book has just been chosen by Good Morning America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Cliodhna O\u2019Sullivan\u2019s acclaimed novel was inspired by her own triumph over a tough upbringing\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cl\u00edodhna O'Sullivan had a tough time at school and at home. Photo: Mark Condren\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/feb33d87-f503-4eb0-9d11-bdd76831d3dd.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Cl\u00edodhna O&#8217;Sullivan had a tough time at school and at home. Photo: Mark Condren<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cI suppose in a weird way that actually nearly tells my own story,\u201d Cl\u00edodhna O\u2019Sullivan says when I ask her about the story she wanted to tell in her debut novel, Her Hidden Fire. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It has already been chosen by Good Morning America as their book club pick of the month, and will feature on the American Bookseller Association list for March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cliodhna O\u2019Sullivan\u2019s acclaimed novel was inspired by her own triumph over a tough upbringing Cl\u00edodhna O&#8217;Sullivan had a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,56007,6992],"class_list":["post-326592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-liadan-hynes","tag-people-culture-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}