Lynda Marron was born in Dublin and spent her early childhood in a small town called Prosperous in Co. Kildare. At the age of nine she moved to Cork. She has not yet mastered the language. In her teens, she learned that reading curbed her anxiety, and that writing swept it clean away. Thus began her addiction to ink. Lynda graduated from University College Cork in the mid-nineties with two degrees in microbiology, neither of which brought her any closer to her dream of writing a novel. She opted for the longer route, the Life Experience Creative Writing Course, which included teaching English to Italian teenagers, filing letters in a GP's surgery, writing listicles for an online bookseller, and a twenty-five year module called Read All the Books. When she isn't busy writing her second novel, you'll find her reading, not weeding, in her rewilded garden. Her greatest ambition is to one day plant a forest, or even just an oak. Last Chance in Paris is her debut novel.