![]() Within weeks it was voted into the top five books of thousands on the site, and was reviewed by a HarperTeen editor. I posted Carrier of the Mark on a HarperCollins website called inkpop. ![]() That career break became a career change when I wrote my debut novel, Carrier of the Mark. When I had my children I decided to take a career break, and soon discovered a love of writing. I worked in corporate treasury and traveled Europe doing all sorts of fun finance stuff. Instead, I got myself a fine Irish brogue growing up in the foothills of the Dublin Mountains where I went to a convent school and had to contend with uniforms, gabardines, and nuns.ĭuring college I met a dashing sailor who swept me off my feet, all the way to Cork in the south of Ireland. I fantasized about the amazing life I could have had in South Africa, and that fantastic accent that could have been all mine. When I was older and realized my parents had moved me from exotic Durban, to sedate Rathfarnham, Dublin 16, I was rightly ticked off. ![]() A year later my parents moved home to Dublin, Ireland. ![]()
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