L M RyanL M Ryan was born in Ireland and is convent educated. She lived there for eighteen years before leaving to live and work first in Staffordshire, then moved permanently to Chiswick in West London. She met and married her husband William and brought upher four children there. Sadly she lost her eldest daughter in 2012 and then her husband in 2019. She has two sons who are engineers and a younger daughter who is a PA. She also has one grandchild, a boy, Jude. Lucinda now lives alone in a sheltered housing unit and, as well as writing, is a keen gardener. Read More Read Less