Lydia Little grew up in Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland. Convincing her parents to send her to boarding school, Lydia attended secondary school in Kylemore Abbey School for girls in Connemara, County Galway, from the ages of twelve to eighteen. Having kept diaries throughout, she still enjoys putting pen to paper, only now her journals are full of plots, scribbles, quotes and new characters, all shouting for inclusion in her new books. After a stint of sailing, living in the UK and a short life as a hotelier, Lydia has returned to West Cork with her husband, three children, three dogs and a mad-...