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For as long as she can remember, Lucy has always loved books – stories of adventure, of weird and wonderful places, and seeing the world through someone else’s eyes. She always dreamed of writing, but there were other things to do first.

She studied languages and philosophy at Oxford and joined the Foreign Office straight out of university in search of adventure and new people and places. She quickly moved across to the Department for International Development (DFID), where she spent time in Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, China and Sierra Leone. She left Sierra Leone to join her now husband in Jordan, taking the long way there across the Sahara, Europe, the Balkans, Turkey and Syria in a much-beloved Land Rover. In Jordan, she worked for H ...more

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