Nenagh mum's children's book explains coeliac disease to young readers

Nenagh woman Hayley O' Connor has published her first book, 'The Gluten Free Kid'.

 

The debut offering is a child-friendly picture book which explains coeliac disease to children, or anyone who is trying to understand the condition. Hayley, aged 29, herself lives with coeliac disease and so too does her music teacher husband, Eoin. So writing about the condition made just common sense because she is all too familiar with that world.

 

Explaining one of the main motivating factors for writing the book, Hayley says that figuring out ways of explaining coeliac disease to their three-year-old daugther, Alannah (she and her husband also have another daughter Madison, aged one) was proving difficult. "So 'The Gluten Free Kid' was born," she explains.

 

You can find it locally at: Jenny's Kitchen Gluten Free Bakery, Eason Nenagh, The Nenagh Bookshop, Horan's Healthstore, Nenagh, Sheelagh Na Gig bookshop, Cloughjordan, Eason Thurles, Bookworm Bookshop Thurles and Keane's Newsagent, Roscrea