Andrew Meehan

I am a novelist with an interest in the shapes and stories to be found in romantic and familial love. My most recent novel Best Friends, a Dublin-set story of love in later life, was published in the summer of 2025. John Self wrote in The Times that it was ‘a joy to read… and perfectly pitched to be a word-of-mouth summer hit’. The Irish Sunday Independent called it: ‘A radiant novel…every bit as achingly romantic as Nicholas Sparks or JoJo Moyes’.

My debut novel One Star Awake was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize, the UK's most prestigious award for debut novelists. It was described by Sue Leonard in the Irish Examiner as ‘mesmerising, inventive, heart-wrenching, and brilliantly realised.’ My second book, The Mystery of Love, a unique and moving reimagining of the relationship between Constance and Oscar Wilde, was a Waterstones Irish Book of the Month.

I am also a screenwriter (adaptations of One Star Awake and The Mystery of Love and Best Friends are in funded development) and an experienced script executive, most notably at Screen Ireland where, as Head of Development, I nurtured the development of numerous Irish feature-films, including the Oscar-nominated animated feature Song of the Sea.