Irish · b. 1990
Caroline O'Donoghue writes about young women in precarious circumstances with wit and heart. Born in Cork in 1990, she worked as a copywriter in London before publishing her first novel, Promising Young Women (2018), about workplace harassment. She hosts the podcast Sentimental Garbage, discussing women's cultural consumption. The Rachel Incident (2023) was her breakthrough—a novel about a young woman in recession-era Cork, her gay best friend, and the married professor who upends everything. O'Donoghue writes comedies of economic and emotional precarity, capturing millennial experience with specificity and generosity.