Article: You don't have to keep mum on baby blues; Author Claire Allan found trouble with being a new mum but overcame her difficulties and now offers help to those struggling with parenthood...(Features)

Byline: Maeve Quigley

SHE'S the Irish author whose books have helped mammies all over the country.

But if it wasn't for her own experience of post-natal depression, the 33-year-old might not have picked up a book at all.

Now the mother of two bouncing babies, Claire Allan's fourth book Jumping In Puddles has just been published by Poolbeg Press.

And she said became brave enough to write her first novel after getting over giving birth for the first time.

Claire said: "I'm very honest about motherhood in my books - it's the good, ...

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