The Mysterious Bakery On Rue De Paris

Content Warning: This section includes discussion of death, racism, and anti-gay bias in the context of the German death camps during WWII.

Evie Woods is the pseudonym for author Evie Gaughan, an Irish-born author. She was born in 1976, raised in Galway, Ireland, and attended Dominican College in Galway and the Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, France in the 1990s. While living and working in Canada in her twenties, she developed social anxiety that became so severe she was forced to quit her job. She credits this period with inspiring her to write (Coffey, Edel. “The Best-Selling Irish Author You May Not Have Heard of Says Social Anxiety Prompted Her to Write.” The Irish Times, 7 Jan. 2024).

As Evie Gaughan, she self-published three novels: The Heirloom (2013), The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris (2014), and The Story Collector (2018). She then struck a publishing deal with One More Chapter, an imprint of Harper Collins, for her first traditionally published novel, The Lost Bookshop (2023). Following the commercial success of this novel, One More Chapter decided to re-release Gaughan’s previous novels under Evie Woods.

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