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Merrion Press ðŸ”– has published a new book by Alan Bradley.




Unmasking Samantha Cookes
The Many Lives of a Serial Fraudster

Alan Bradley



‘Lies? Yes, everyone lies. I’ve lied ever since I could remember. It’s the only thing I do well, and I think we should all play to our strengths, don’t you?’

Unmasking Samantha Cookes is the chilling true story of a master manipulator who spent more than a decade reinventing herself across the UK and Ireland with an arsenal of false identities. Once known to millions as ‘Carrie Jade Williams’, she slipped seamlessly from au pair and nanny to therapist, psychologist, terminally ill author and online ‘sickfluencer’. Each persona carefully crafted. Each lie more audacious than the last. And each one designed to gain trust – and exploit it.

What started with the tragic death of a baby soon became a trail of fraud, deception and shattered lives. Every reinvention brought new victims, until her most audacious lie, a fabricated terminal illness, triggered a TikTok reckoning.

Drawing on exclusive evidence and firsthand accounts, Unmasking Samantha Cookes pulls back the curtain on a mastermind of deception hiding in plain sight, and reveals just how easily trust can be weaponised, with an unsettling question at its core: how well do we really know the people we trust with our children?

Paperback • €18.99|£17.99 • 304pages • 226mm x 153mm • 9781785375934

From the maker of BAD NANNY - the acclaimed documentary seen on RTÉ & BBC

‘At last, the full story – with startling new revelations – of Samantha Cookes, aka Carrie Jade Williams, whose trail of deception and duplicity took more than a decade to unravel.  Bradley’s unmasking of Cookes is sharp, gripping and impossible to ignore.’

NICOLA TALLANT

Order your copy

About The Author

Alan Bradley is an award-winning Irish director, actor and writer working across documentary, television drama and advertising. He won the Young Director Award for Documentary at Cannes 2024 and is the youngest director to hold a prime-time RTÉ One documentary slot. Named a Broadcast Hotshot 2025, he has directed critically acclaimed films including Patrick: A Young Traveller Lost, Anorexia: My Family and Me and the hit RTÉ/BBC series Bad Nanny.

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Merrion Press ðŸ”– has published a new book by Alan Bradley.




Unmasking Samantha Cookes
The Many Lives of a Serial Fraudster

Alan Bradley



‘Lies? Yes, everyone lies. I’ve lied ever since I could remember. It’s the only thing I do well, and I think we should all play to our strengths, don’t you?’

Unmasking Samantha Cookes is the chilling true story of a master manipulator who spent more than a decade reinventing herself across the UK and Ireland with an arsenal of false identities. Once known to millions as ‘Carrie Jade Williams’, she slipped seamlessly from au pair and nanny to therapist, psychologist, terminally ill author and online ‘sickfluencer’. Each persona carefully crafted. Each lie more audacious than the last. And each one designed to gain trust – and exploit it.

What started with the tragic death of a baby soon became a trail of fraud, deception and shattered lives. Every reinvention brought new victims, until her most audacious lie, a fabricated terminal illness, triggered a TikTok reckoning.

Drawing on exclusive evidence and firsthand accounts, Unmasking Samantha Cookes pulls back the curtain on a mastermind of deception hiding in plain sight, and reveals just how easily trust can be weaponised, with an unsettling question at its core: how well do we really know the people we trust with our children?

Paperback • €18.99|£17.99 • 304pages • 226mm x 153mm • 9781785375934

From the maker of BAD NANNY - the acclaimed documentary seen on RTÉ & BBC

‘At last, the full story – with startling new revelations – of Samantha Cookes, aka Carrie Jade Williams, whose trail of deception and duplicity took more than a decade to unravel.  Bradley’s unmasking of Cookes is sharp, gripping and impossible to ignore.’

NICOLA TALLANT

Order your copy

About The Author

Alan Bradley is an award-winning Irish director, actor and writer working across documentary, television drama and advertising. He won the Young Director Award for Documentary at Cannes 2024 and is the youngest director to hold a prime-time RTÉ One documentary slot. Named a Broadcast Hotshot 2025, he has directed critically acclaimed films including Patrick: A Young Traveller Lost, Anorexia: My Family and Me and the hit RTÉ/BBC series Bad Nanny.
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