Background
She was born and raised in the Liverpool suburb of Fazakerley, which serves as the inspiration for her novels. She is the daughter of a hairdresser and a police officer
She was born and raised in the Liverpool suburb of Fazakerley, which serves as the inspiration for her novels. She is the daughter of a hairdresser and a police officer
She was educated at the Convent of Notre-Dame at Everton Valley where she did not excel at English but had a passion for history and literature, eventually earning 5 O-levels.
Lyn Andrews is a British novelist and author whose stories centre mainly around Liverpool and Ireland. She then trained as short-hand typist at a well-rated commercial college in Colquitt Street. At that time she was living in Fazakerley.
In her own words, "In those days I never did any writing at all.
I didn"t want to be a writer"
She quit her job after about 3 years at Lily Cups when she became pregnant. Currently Lyn is one of the top one hundred bestselling authors in the United Kingdom, reaching Number.
1 on the Sunday Times paperback best-seller list. In 1993 she was shortlisted for the Romantic Novel of the year Award.
To date she has written thirty-one original novels and is a popular novelist in the North of England.
She now divides her time between Merseyside and Ireland where she has lived for several years.
