Heather Mottershead has won the Daily Mail First Novel competition. She will receive a £20,000 advance and a publishing deal for her novel, which is set in a Victorian asylum.
Bestselling author to give talk at Kilkenny library kilkennypeople.ie - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from kilkennypeople.ie Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Is there a hard-edged thriller inside you, just bursting to get out, or a brilliantly researched historical adventure, a tear-jerking romance or even a comedy of modern manners?