Sinclair, Rosemary

Jean Lombard was born and grew up in Dublin, Ireland, where she met John Lombard, a journalist, when they were both working in Guinness's Brewery. She migrated to Australia in 1968 and married John in Melbourne, the same year. They have travelled widely, spending some years in Singapore and Russia, where John was a Foreign Correspondent for the ABC. Jean researched her first book 'An Irish Woman in Czarist Russia' while living in the former Soviet Union. Jean and John bought a ruined farmhouse in a small village in Southern Burgundy, in 1989, and later renovated it. This has been their home fo...