Gretta Curran Browne had always loved books, and in 1998 achieved her dream of seeing her debut novel Tread Softly On My Dreams published - a political thriller about Robert Emmet. Her first two books achieved critical acclaim and in 2000 she wrote the novel of the film Ordinary Decent Criminal, starring Kevin Spacey as the gangster boss, The General, and later the book of the major TV drama Relative Strangers, starring Brenda Fricker.