A Cocoon with a View

Alice Taylor is a bestselling Irish author who lives in the village of Innishannon in County Cork, in a house attached to the local supermarket and post office. Her first book, To School Through the Fields, was published in 1988. It was an immediate success and quickly became the biggest selling book ever published in Ireland. Taylor has written nearly twenty books since then, largely exploring her beloved village and the ways of life in rural Ireland, all of which have been successful and have sold internationally. She has also written poetry and fiction; her first novel, The Woman of the House, was an immediate bestseller. Her most recent book is Weathering Storms (2025), another work of memoir.

Jennifer Fitzgerald is a multi-award-winning Southern Irish voice artist, character actor and audio producer. She has produced hundreds of audiobooks for publishers such as Harper Audio, Bolinda, BBC, Hachette, Audible and W.F. Howes. As a voice actor, she has worked on video games such as BAFTA–nominated Harp Song and narrated audiobooks like the Earphones Award–winning And Life Lights Up by Alice Taylor, The Ghostlights by Gráinne Murphy, Earphones Award–winner The Ministry For the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson and The Visitor by Zoe Miller.