Noelle Maria McCarthy (born 1978 or 1979) is an Irish-New Zealand writer and broadcaster.
[4] She moved to New Zealand in 2003 in her early twenties after a year of travelling in Asia and Australia.
[4][5] From August 2004 to November 2006, McCarthy worked as news and editorial director at Auckland student radio station 95bFM,[4] and in January 2007 began hosting talkback segments on Newstalk ZB.
[14] It was selected as the best non-fiction of 2022 by Newsroom; reviewer Linda Burgess described McCarthy's writing as similar to her radio persona: "impulsive, fast, fluent and frighteningly bright".
[17] The award citation called it an "exquisite debut", with McCarthy's relationship with her mother "at times brutally detailed"; the book itself was termed "an uplifting memoir, delicate and self-aware, and a credit to McCarthy’s generosity and literary deftness".