Lyn Andrews (born 1943) is the

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used by

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Lynda M. Andrews. Her stories centre mainly around

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and

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Early life

Andrews was born and raised in the Liverpool suburb of

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,Lyn Andrews
, ''Merseysiders Magazine'', Dec. 13, 2012, p. 14. 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.''Writing was on the wall; ECHO JOBS: My first job - Lyn Andrews may be a bestselling author now, but there was a time when she typed others' work rather than her own''
Interview, 2002, on ''thefreelibrary.com''. 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

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and married her husband Robert, a policeman from Fazakerley. At that time she was living in

. 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.

Career

Currently, Lyn is one of the top one hundred bestselling authors in the UK, reaching No. 1 on the

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paperback best-seller list. In 1993, she was shortlisted for th
Romantic Novel of the year Award
To date she has written 31 original novels and is a popular novelist in the North of England.

Personal life

Lyn Andrews was born in

in September 1943. Her father was killed on D-Day when Lyn was 9 months old. When Lyn was 3 her mother Monica married Frank Moore, who became 'dad' to Lyn. She was a secretary before she married husband, Bob Andrews, a policeman. In 1970, she gave birth to triplets, two sons and a daughter. She lived in Ireland for 11 years and is now resident on the

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, but spends as much time as possible back on

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, seeing her children and grandchildren.

Bibliography

The White Empress
(1989) * The Sisters O'Donnell (1990) * Liverpool Lou (1991) * Ellan Vannin (1991) *

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(1992) * Maggie May (1993) * Mist Over the Mersey (1994) * Mersey Blues (1995)
Liverpool Lamplight
(1996) * Liverpool Songbird (1996)
From this day forth
(1997) * Where the Mersey Flows (1997) * Angels of Mercy (1998) * When Tomorrow Dawns (1998) * The Ties That Bind (1999) * Take These Broken Wings (1999) * My Sister's Child (2000) * The House on Lonely Street (2001) * Love and a Promise (2002)
A Wing and a Prayer
(2002) * When Daylight Comes (2003) * Across a Summer Sea (2003) * A Mother's Love (2004) * Every Mother's Son (2005)
Friends Forever
(2005) * Far from Home (2006) * Days of Hope (2008) * A Daughter's Journey (2008)
A Secret in the Family
(2009) * To Love and to Cherish (2010) * Beyond a Misty Shore (2011) * The Liverpool Matchgirl (2018)

References

External links

Lyn Andrews – The Sunday Times No.1 Bestseller
(Headline Publishing Group)
Lyn Andrews: Best-seller status for ordinary girl
(Liverpool Daily Post, 10 September 2007)
Lyn Andrews
on ''authorpages.hoddersystems.com''
Lyn Andrews
on ''fantasticfiction.co.uk''

on ''christinegreen.co.uk'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Andrews, Lyn Novelists from Liverpool Living people 1944 births People from Fazakerley