Sheena Wilkinson

Sheena Wilkinson is an award-winning Irish author who writes for both adults and young adults. She has won the Children's Books Ireland Award multiple times and been awarded an MBE for services to literature and the community. Mrs Hart's Marriage Bureau is a historical novel set in Belfast in 1943, following a war widow who opens a marriage bureau — an unusual business for wartime, where the absence of young men at the front makes matchmaking both more challenging and more necessary. The novel captures the atmosphere of wartime Belfast with warmth, humour, and attention to the social dynamics of a city under pressure. Wilkinson's fiction is characterised by its strong sense of place, its vivid female characters, and its ability to find stories in overlooked corners of Irish history. Her audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers warm, historically rich fiction that brings the ordinary lives of extraordinary times to vivid life — stories set in an Ireland that is often overlooked by the wider literary world.