Jean Grainger is an Irish novelist. She writes both contemporary and historical Irish fiction. Before becoming a writer, she was a tour guide of her beloved Ireland as well as a teacher of English and History at both second and third level. She won the 2016 Best Historical Fiction at the Author’s Circle Awards, and her WW2 book, What Once Was True was chosen by Bookbub readers as in the top 20 Historical Fiction Books of 2018. She lives in a stone cottage in Cork with her husband and two of her four children. The older two come home occasionally with laundry and to raid the fridge.