“But I can understand now why people read, why they like to get lost in somebody else's life. Sometimes I'll read a sentence and it will make me sit up, jolt me, because it is something that I have recently felt but never said out loud. I want to reach into the page and tell the characters that I understand them, that they're not alone, that I'm not alone, that it's okay to feel like this.”

Irish novelist

Cecelia Ahern is an Irish novelist from Dublin, known for contemporary fiction and for books such as Where Rainbows End, If You Could See Me Now, and PS, I Love You. Her novels have been published in nearly fifty countries and have sold more than 25 million copies worldwide. Two of her books were adapted into films, and her short story collection Roar became a series for Apple TV+.