'I'd feel like a voyeur in another world' - Wicklow cancer survivor on novel she started from hospital bed

"Asking for a laptop as she lay in a hospital bed during a frightening cancer ordeal, Wicklow woman Elaine Murphy could hardly have imagined that those first taps on the keyboard would lead to her debut work of fiction, See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, a Garden County mystery born from the darkest chapter of her life."

"Her father, 'a very creative man', filled her younger years with poems and stories, planting a seed that, years later, would help her overcome self-doubt and put her own words out into the world."

Elaine Murphy, a Wicklow woman, began writing her debut novel, See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, while in a hospital bed during her cancer treatment. This work of fiction, a Garden County mystery, was born from a challenging period in her life. Although her journey to authorship was unconventional, the creative influence of her father, who shared poems and stories, instilled a passion for writing that helped her overcome self-doubt and express her own narrative.

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