author : Donal RyanDonal Ryan is from Nenagh in County Tipperary. He wrote the first draft of The Spinning Heart in the long summer evenings of 2010, and has also completed a second novel, The Thing About December. The Spinning Heart has been longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize and won Book of the Year at the 2012 Irish Book Awards. Donal lives with his wife Anne Marie and their two children just outside Limerick City.