Nicola’s first five novels were released under the imprint of the Irish publishing house, Poolbeg Press.
‘Diving Through Clouds’ was also published in the USA by St. Martin’s Press and was later chosen for inclusion within the ‘Readers Digest ‘Select Editions’ which sold worldwide.
Currently she is completing the final draft of a novel which is based on an imaginary island off the west coast of Africa and also working on a new book.
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DIVING THROUGH CLOUDS: Kate has died, but is not dead. Surprising discoveries lie ahead . . .
Kate Fitzgerald's spirit hovers above her hospital bed, looking down on her lifeless body. She finds herself far from extinguished, but rather in some sort of limbo. Kate travels freely back and forth into the lives of those she left behind - her cold, unloving husband, William; his mistress Veronica (who is Kate’s best friend); her estranged daughter, Celia and her adorable French grandson, Matt.
A PLACE FOR UNICORNS: Anna’s journey from childhood to adult brings her both grief and unexpected joy.
Eight-year-old Anna arrives in Pisa with her beautiful mother, Rosalind, for a holiday. Rosalind is carefree and happy but Anna pines for her disgraced father, left behind in Cambridge. A fatal car crash forces their return to England where further devastation awaits. Anna is rescued by her father's eccentric Aunt Pog and whisked off to the West of Ireland. Later on, back in England and now a young woman, she meets Benny, whom she believes is the answer to her search for love and security. However, he is not all that he seems. With the affectionate support of two very different women, Anna finds the courage, strength and humour to deal with the unexpected future that lies ahead.
EDEN FADING: Rachel has been followed to Tuscany where she begins to realise that her life is in danger.
Rachel is distraught after her husband's premature death and takes up the offer to look after a house owned by friends in Tuscany. Although the farmhouse and its surrounding setting are idyllic, it soon becomes obvious that she has been followed to Italy. Events, at first just slightly worrying, quickly take on a sinister turn and she realises that her life is in danger.
TUMBLING JUDE: Jude’s life is in free-fall but there is more trouble ahead.
Although attractive and successful, Jude feels that she is in free fall. With her home life in chaos and a resident mother-in-law from Hell, she escapes to a beautiful Greek island to track down her feckless father and to find out why he abandoned her and her mother. What she learns there only seems to complicate things further. But it is nothing compared to the revelations that greet her on her return to Ireland.
BUTTERFLY: A daughter’s death tears a family apart.
Hebe Sayer, a writer of children’s stories has always been blessed, or cursed, with a surfeit of imagination. Her writing kept her troubled world together, helped her to cope with a disastrous marriage and the turbulent teenage years of her daughters Cassandra and Pandora.
But she hadn’t written a word in nearly a year, not since the sudden tragic death of Pandora, when her world began to unravel.
Now, as she prepares to return to the real world, Hebe starts a diary in the hope that it may help her to become a whole functioning person again, strong enough to deal with the loss of her daughter, strong enough to help Cassandra rebuild her life and to understand the anger that still exists between Cassie and her father.
MIXED SPIRITS: A story of Good versus Evil.
Fleeing from a harsh and loveless existence with her missionary parents in Africa, Maddie makes a life for herself in Ireland. Separated from a selfish and unfaithful husband she is amazed to discover that a large house has been left to her by an aunt she never knew existed. As soon as she moves in, she discovers that her dead Aunt Marietta is not so dead after all. In fact, the whole house appears to be teeming with a variety of ghosts, some delightful, others not so appealing. As Maddie has already experienced unusual and not always explicable phenomena in Africa, she is far from thrown by the discovery. However, when both the spirit world and her own are threatened by evil, her courage and endurance are tested to the limit.
CHARLOTTE BESIDE HERSELF: Charlotte meets her alter ego.
Charlotte's near death experience results in her other self, or alter ego, suddenly appearing in the street beside her. After her initial amazement, the two halves of Charlotte begin the process of coming to terms with what has happened. Younger sister, Dizzie, is entranced when she discovers she now has two sisters. Threatened with eviction by their thoroughly unpleasant landlord, the girls find they have an unexpected ally in his elderly and delightful sister. However, things do not go smoothly for them and the police become interested in their struggle.
THE SILVER PENTACLE: Fay’s magical powers are challenged to the limit.
Nothing about Fay McCarthy could be described as normal or ordinary. Abandoned as a baby with a silver pentacle as her only belonging, she is adopted by a loving middle-class couple. As she grows to adulthood, she learns to hide the extraordinary healing powers she possesses. Deceived by the seductive and dangerous Lawrence, she becomes pregnant. In spite of this, Fay is offered marriage by the upper crust Henry Dillon. Reluctantly, she agrees and embarks on a life that is totally different from anything she has previously experienced – enduring a mixed reception from several members of Henry’s family. However, life in the Dower House with Henry’s marvellously eccentric grandmother proves to be a haven from the critical glare of the main household. But she and her small daughter, Poppy, are not as safe as she had hoped from the evil forces, lurking outside the elegant wrought iron gates of Mount St Paul.