Kate gets her book back; taxi driver the hero of the day
Novelist Kate Kerrigan is celebrating this afternoon after her all-but finished book was found by the man in whose taxi she left it yesterday.
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On the laptop was the ONLY copy of her 300+ page new novel, the culmination of one year of work.
The bag containing the laptop - a small wheelie suitcase - was found by taxi driver Eddie Masterson. Inside he found a business card with Kate’s real name, Morag Prunty, and plugged that into facebook to see what came up.
He found Kate’s facebook page and messaged her with the terrific news.
“He’s my hero,” a thrilled Kate told breakingnews.ie today, on her way back home by train to Mayo.
“I just want to say thank you, thank you, thank you to him.”
In a message on her facebook page, Kate added: “ Elated, relieved - lesson learned re BACKING UP.”
Having joined the campaign to get Kate her book back, fellow auther Cecilia Ahern tweeted this afternoon that it had "better be a bloody good novel after all that!!"
@Cecelia_Ahern @MarianKeyes @AmandaJBrunker It IS! (Courtsies)
— Kate Kerrigan (@katekerrigan) May 14, 2014
As Kate’s not living in Dublin, a friend will meet Eddie to collect the case, and return it to Kate.
How about a signed copy of the new novel for Eddie?
“Oh, at least that,” laughed a vastly relieved Kate.
Eddie told Kate that two other people had travelled in the taxi after she got out of it around lunchtime yesterday.
They didn’t take or report - and possibly didn’t spot - her bag. However, when Eddie was checking through the back of the taxi later in the day, he found it, and immediately turned detective.
The book, Kate’s eighth novel (writing as Kate Kerrigan), will be called The Dress and is set in 1950s and modern-day America, in the world of high fashion.
It is set for publication this time next year.
