Mary Ann O'Leary was born in Worcestershire and still lives in the north of the county. She was educated at St. Mary's Independent School, Worcester and worked for many years in city centre offices. Her chief enjoyments now apart from writing include listening to 1960s music, reading poetry and whodunits, cycling and travelling. Mary Ann has mixed 20th century British Isles ancestry, having Irish, Welsh and English forbears; from An Uaimh (Navan), Co. Meath; Maerdy and Cardiff, Glamorgan; and Monks Kirby and Pailton, Warwickshire. More or less everybody's relative. She has a Facebook page: www.facebook.com/maryann.oleary.16 and is also on Twitter @MaryAnnOLeary1