Karl Geary was born in Dublin, and moved to New York City at age sixteen. He has worked as a script writer (Coney Island Baby), and an actor (Michael Almereyda's Hamlet, and Ken Loach's Jimmy's Hall), and has adapted and directed Dorothy Parker's `You Were Perfectly Fine' for the screen. He lives in Glasgow with his wife and daughter.
Pitch-perfect...an auspicious debut. Guardian Luminous...brilliantly paced, full of tension and tenderness. Irish Times Few novelists debut with a masterpiece, but Geary has done just that. Stunning. Mail on Sunday Montpelier Parade is haunting - a portrayal of loneliness that is eerily beautiful and desperately moving -- Lisa McInerney, author of The Glorious Heresies Luminous and moving. A story that asks who you can love and how, and a novel that gets to the heart of things; it certainly got to the heart of me. -- Sunjeev Sahota