Fiona McCann *Writes
Debut Novel Coming
February 2026
When a financial crisis drives emotionally-armoured accountant Lily Barrett back to Inish Ruin, the tiny West Cork island of her childhood, she has one goal: sell her late Nana’s cottage and get out fast. No nostalgic strolls down Memory Lane. No cosy reunions with the locals who once felt like family. And absolutely no contact with the boy who broke her heart.
But Inish Ruin has other plans.
“This book felt like a hug I didn’t know I needed. Gorgeous. Fans of cosy escapes are going to eat this up.”
— Goodreads review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
About Fiona
Fiona McCann lives with her family in the leafy foothills of the Dublin mountains but her summer holidays growing up were all spent on a very special West Cork island which inspired the setting for her debut novel.
Over the years she has worked in a non-creative capacity in the animation field, in a creative capacity in the accounts field and in both capacities in the motherhood field!
She’s pinching herself to be joining the Poolbeg Press family whose iconic lighthouse logo has graced the back cover of so many of her favourite novels over the years.
