Author’s many successes included Falling for a Dancer and ghostwriting Gay Byrne’s autobiography
“Sabina and I extend our deepest condolences to Deirdre’s husband Kevin Healy, her sons Adrian and Simon Weckler, and to her wide circle of family and friends.”
Patricia Scanlan, her fellow author and close friend, said: “I can’t believe I’m writing a tribute for one of my oldest, dearest, most treasured friends. Deirdre once told me that she was told she carried the Dakini/Goddess energy and how true that was. She was the very essence of what that meant. A female messenger of wisdom, bearing the most sacred aspect of the feminine principle. Deirdre was a very empowered woman. She broke glass ceilings.
“I met Deirdre Purcell at a charity event hosted by Eason’s,” Carmel Harrington said. “I stared in wonder at her for at least an hour before I summoned up the nerve to say hello. I need not have been nervous - Deirdre was as warm and captivating as her books. We ended up chatting about our writing careers and were charmed that we’d both worked in Aer Lingus, before we became authors. We had much in common!in the early ‘90s, late into the night.
Purcell was a successful non-fiction author before turning to fiction with her debut bestseller, A Place of Stones, in 1991.
A Place of Stones, which Maeve Binchy called “an unputdownable story of Irish life and love”, was followed by That Childhood Country then Falling for a Dancer in 1993, which was adapted for a BBC TV series in 1998 starring Elisabeth Dermot Walsh, Liam Cunningham, Dermot Crowley and a young Colin Farrell. Other novels included Love Like Hate Adore , Tell Me Your Secret , The Husband and The Christmas Voyage.
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