It’s tricky for Niamh O’Flaherty, growing up in a North London home that’s a shrine to all things Irish. But it’s even trickier being an adult and realizing that her family expects her to settle down with a nice Irish lad, especially now that she’s living in Dublin.

When Niamh finally meets the love of her life he is the last person she would expect to fall for her. Pierre is older and an intellectual, but she loves his ability to laugh at himself, his calmness and strength of character, and, of course, his stunning looks.

There’s just one problem: if Pierre’s parents — Jean and Fleur — are sniffy about their pride and joy hooking up with a girl who writes a fluffy newspaper column, her parents, Mick and Annie, are going to go ballistic when they hear that their daughter intends to marry someone who couldn’t be less Irish if he tried...

Sinéad was born and raised in Dublin where she grew up surrounded by books. Her mother is an author of children's books. Growing up, Sinéad says she was inspired by watching her mother writing at the kitchen table and then being published. From that moment on, her childhood dream was to write a novel.

After university, she went to live in Paris and then London. It was at the age of thirty, while working as a journalist in London that she began to write creatively in her spare time. After a couple of years toying with ideas, she joined a creative writing group and began to write The Baby Trail. Shortly after the novel was published, Sinéad had a baby boy - a very happy ending to her own Baby Trail.

Since writing the book, Sinéad has moved back to Dublin where she lives with her husband and baby son. The second and last titles in the The Baby Trail series - A Perfect Match and From Here to Maternity, are also published by Penguin. Sinéad's latest novel is In My Sister's Shoes.

You can visit Sinéad Moriarty's own website at www.sineadmoriarty.com.