Emily Hourican

Emily Hourican is an Irish journalist and author of both fiction and non-fiction. The Glorious Guinness Girls is a bestselling historical novel inspired by the real lives of Aileen, Maureen and Oonagh Guinness, the three glamorous granddaughters of Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh, who were among the most celebrated socialites of the 1920s and 1930s. The novel follows a fictional narrator who enters the orbit of the Guinness family and is swept up in their world of parties, privilege and heartbreak in Jazz Age London and Dublin. Hourican draws on real events and characters to create a vivid portrait of an era defined by excess and change. She has worked as a journalist for the Irish Independent and other publications, and her non-fiction includes books on parenting and family life. Her audiobooks and books bring the glamour and drama of Irish social history to life with narrative skill and historical detail.