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ⓘ About Olive Collins
“The Memory of Music” won the Annie McHale Best Debut and it remained in the Bestselling Charts for 3 months. Olive’s inspiration is the ordinary everyday people that feed her little snippets of their lives. It is the unsaid and the gaps in conversation which she finds the most valuable. She’s also always loved the diversity of people and books. “The Memory of Music” is the first novel in the “O’Neill” series and was released in 2016. A single Irish family during 100 turbulent years. 1916. Betty O’Fogarty is clever and proud. Spurred on by her belief in her husband’s talent making violins and her desire to escape from rural life, they elope to Dublin. She expects life here to fulfill all of her dreams.
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Who is Olive Collins?
“The Memory of Music” won the Annie McHale Best Debut and it remained in the Bestselling Charts for 3 months. Olive’s inspiration is the ordinary everyday people that feed her little snippets of their lives. It is the unsaid and the gaps in conversation which she finds the most valuable.
Which Olive Collins series should I start with?
The best place to start is the O'Neill series, the earliest of Olive Collins's multi-book series: it opens with The Tide Between Us (2018) and runs to 4 books across 2018–2023, ending with Manhattan Ember (2023).
How many books has Olive Collins written?
Olive Collins has 7 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2011 and 2026. 5 of them belong to 2 named series — the largest being the O'Neill series with 4 books — and 2 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Olive Collins's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Olive Collins's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are O'Neill (2018–2023, 4 books) and Achill (2026, 1 book).
How are Olive Collins's books organised into series?
This guide splits Olive Collins's 7 books into 2 named series and 2 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: O'Neill (4 books, 2018–2023); Achill (1 book, 2026).