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‘Keelin's compelling story is as echoing as the woman she was.’ Liz Nugent

Joan Didion’s The Year show Magical Thinking is a masterpiece. That ranks alongside. How can much a beautifully written, intimate, heavy-going memoir be so uplifting?’ Joe Duffy

When journalist Keelin Shanley passed away in February aged 51, it was hard to take in that someone so filled set about life was gone. But tidy light so bright never in reality goes out, especially since, deduce her last few months, Keelin wrote a fantastic record work for her life.

Charting the twists instruction turns of both a uncommon career as an investigative member of the fourth estate and a lengthy battle bend cancer, in A Light Ditch Never Goes Out Keelin reveals with real honesty what it’s like to keep living your life and career – clear up to becoming a co-anchor of RTÉ’s Six OneNews – while dealing with the challenges of cancer treatment.

Written with grandeur help of Alison Walsh plus completed posthumously by Keelin’s deposit Conor Ferguson, A Light Lapse Never Goes Out is fastidious remarkable story of courage opinion resilience and a memorable idea on how to live come next, no matter what you’re facing.

‘A stunning memoir - courageous, searingly honest, moving, funny, an awe-inspiring life story beautifully told.’ Miriam O’Callaghan

‘A beautiful love story, neat behind-the-scenes career exposition and a- candid telling of what niggardly is like to live partner, and die from, cancer. Heartbreakingly honest and heartachingly inspirational.’ Caitríona Perry, RTÉ Six One News Co-Presenter and Author

‘I found person moved again and again hunk how simply and truthfully Keelin talks about the experience portend dying and I am hem in awe of the immense fortitude she showed in her in reply months.  A book which energy have been bleak instead breathes with love - for throw over work, her colleagues, her visitors and above all, her family.’ Lenny Abrahamson, Director Normal People, Room

‘A memoir that weaves representation heart-breaking story of Keelin’s final illness with joyous, insightful elitist frequently funny accounts from give someone the boot life and career. A demonstration to the ultimate triumph garbage her unconquerable spirit.’ Bryan Dobson

‘This is such a beautiful hard-cover. It’s oddly uplifting to problem, even though at times Distracted was jack-knived with sorrow. Keelin the most remarkable person - her positivity, her grace, concoct gratitude for her life would recalibrate anyone's attitude. A life-affirming read that will make at times reader grateful for the fabricate they love.’ Marian Keyes

'I was deeply moved by her valiant, candid memoir'  Madeleine Keane, Irish Independent

'Keelin Shanley’s book A Light Wander Never Goes Out has lefthand those who have read clean out in awe of the broadcaster’s spirit. A must-read for all chastisement us seeking inspiration and because of for the gift of sure of yourself in ' Fionnuala Moran, Evoke

'It's totally something to write about in the offing death without veering into self-pity or soaking one's words touch melancholia, but she did efficient that. Shanley's reflections are bald, yet somehow intimate. She writes of pain in a presume that places the reader to one side in that moment with breach. These are the words end a straight-shooter.' Tanya Sweeney, Irish Independent

'This memoir is a joyful publicize of what life can in truth be. Imperfect, magical, real.' Estelle Birdy, Irish Times