Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick
Award-Winning Irish Writer and Illustrator
Latest Books
The Museum of Lost Umbrellas is the first of The Cloud Witch Chronicles, a new middle-grade series published by Faber. It is the story of Dilly Kyteler, a young girl who moves to the magical island of Ollipest where umbrellas fly, doors grant wishes and dogs walk out of the sea.
Book 2, The Last Sea Monster of Ollipest, will be out in May 2027.
Sisters of the Moon is a YA novel published by Faber & Faber in 2024. Lonely Suzy Button makes three wishes on a supermoon. Into her life walks the mysterious Rhiannon Albedo and strange things begin to happen.
Sisters was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2025, shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards 2024, longlisted for the Spark Award, shortlisted for the Brilliant Book Awards, & named a Financial Times Best Book of 2024 (YA)
On Midnight Beach, (Faber) published in 2020. It is a reimagining of an Irish legend, The Táin. The story is reset in the long hot summer of 1976. Dog Cullen (Cúchulainn) and Maeve (Maedhbh) are teenagers in clogs, and bellbottom jeans and the bull is a wild dolphin. Told through the voices of Emer and Gus, it is at once a love story and a dramatic coming-of-age tale.
Shortlisted for the 2021 Carnegie Medal, the Lancashire Book of the Year Award, the Irish Book Awards, and longlisted for the UKLAs and the KSC Book Awards.