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A scholarship student at an elite Dublin convent school in the 1980s is forced to fight for her life when her plan to expose a paedophile swimming coach has fatal consequences.
Fiona McPhillips is a journalist and author of two nonfiction books. Her creative work has appeared in Hobart, Litro, Atrium and elsewhere. She is a reader for The Forge literary magazine and is studying for an MA in Creative Writing at DCU in Dublin, where she lives with her husband and three children.
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