MELANIE WYLLIEMelanie Wyllie was born in London in 1934. In 1939 her family home was requisitioned and she spent the War in the Sussex countryside. Her mother died of cancer in 1941, when Melanie was not quite seven. Kept at home she had no proper schooling until fter the War when she was sent to boarding school in Brighton. From there she returned to London to study piano at the Royal Academy of Music. She made her home in London where she married and brought up a son and daughter, teaching the piano to dozens of children over nearly two decades. In 1991 Melanie moved to France and began writing seriously. Returning five years later, she resettled in London where she continues to write, amassing a number of short stories and novellas. She has just finished her first novel, 'Except in Spring'. Read More Read Less