Background
Anna Torv was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1944 to Jacob Tõrv, an Estonian-born merchant seaman, and Sylvia Braida, a Scottish drycleaner.
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Anna Mann
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Her parents had a drycleaning business in Glasgow, until they emigrated to Australia. When they opened a picnic park outside Sydney and it went bankrupt, her mother left the family household. She worked as a journalist for the Australian Daily Telegraph.
She later served on the board of directors of News Corporation.
She has written three books Her first novel, In Her Own Image, is about two sisters who fall in love with the same man on a sheep station close to the Murrumbidgee River.
Personal life
They had three children:
Elisabeth Murdoch (1968)
Lachlan Murdoch (born 1971)
James Murdoch (born 1972)
She remarried six months later, to William Mann, a financier. They reside in The Hamptons, in a house formerly owned by philanthropist the Yasmin Aga Khan.
