Anne-Marie Casey
Category: Film, TV & Theatre
Agent: Nicky Lund

Anne-Marie Casey is a novelist, playwright and screenwriter. She works in the US, UK and Ireland, has written numerous episodes of series TV and has adapted several of Maeve Binchy's stories for TV and radio.

Her debut novel, No One Could have Guessed the Weather was published in the US by Amy Einhorn books, part of Putnam/Penguin US and in the UK as An Englishwoman in New York by John Murray (Publishers). The US edition was published on 1 April 2013, and the UK edition in October 2013. It was an Irish Bestseller, a Kirkus Reviews best debut novel and best book of the year 2013 in the US, and was chosen for the YOU magazine book club in the UK.

Her second novel The Real Liddy James will be published in early 2016 in the UK and the US.





Her most recent credits and commissions include:

2015 - BRIDGET CLEARY, a feature film adaptation of the book by Angela Bourke. Producer, Wildfire Films, Director, Jim O'Hanlon, starring Richard Armitage.

2015 - BRIDGET CLEARY, a feature film adaptation of the book by Angela Bourke. Producer, Wildfire Films, Director, Jim O'Hanlon, starring Richard Armitage.

In 1895, Bridget Cleary, a strong-minded and independent young woman, disappeared from her house in rural Tipperary. At first her family claimed she had been taken by fairies-but then her badly burned body was found in a shallow grave. Bridget's husband, father, aunt, and four cousins were arrested and tried for murder, creating one of the first mass media sensations in Ireland and England as people tried to make sense of what had happened. Meanwhile, Tory newspapers in Ireland and Britain seized on the scandal to discredit the cause of Home Rule, playing on lingering fears of a savage Irish peasantry. Combining historical detective work, acute social analysis, and meticulous original scholarship, Angela Bourke investigates Bridget's murder.

Bridget Cleary (Irish: Bríd Ní Chléirigh) was an Irish woman killed by her husband in 1895. Her death is notable for several peculiarities: the stated motive for the crime was her husband's belief that she had been abducted by fairies with a changeling left in her place; he claimed to have slain only the changeling. The gruesome nature of the case — she was immolated, either causing or immediately following her death (she would, by definition, have to be alive to be "immolated") — prompted extensive press coverage. The trial was closely followed by newspapers in both Ireland and Britain.[1] As one reviewer commented, nobody, with the possible exception of the presiding judge, thought it was an ordinary murder case.[1]

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