Lyn Andrews
Lyn Andrews is the pen name used by British novelist Lynda M. Andrews. Her stories centre mainly around Liverpool and Ireland.
Early life
Andrews was born and raised in the Liverpool suburb of Fazakerley, She is the only daughter of Joseph and Monica Ormesher. Her mother was a hairdresser who later remarried when Lyn was three years old. Lyn's stepfather was Frank Moore, 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.She then trained as short-hand typist at a well-rated commercial college in Colquitt Street. After graduating, she became a secretary at the Lily Cups company in Aintree and married her husband Robert, a policeman from Fazakerley. At that time she was living in Fazakerley. Andrews remembers, "In those days I never did any writing at all. I didn't want to be a writer."
She quit her job after about three years at Lily Cups when she became pregnant. Giving birth to triplets, a daughter Helen and two sons Paul and Keith, she raised her family and started to publish novels.