Lyn Andrews

Lyn Andrews (born 1944) is the nom de plume used by British novelist Lynda M. Andrews.

Lyn Andrews is a British novelist and author whose stories centre mainly around Liverpool and Ireland.

She was born and raised in the Liverpool suburb of Fazakerley, which serves as the inspiration for her novels. She is the daughter of a hairdresser and 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 and also a Fazakerley native. At that time she was living in Fazakerley. In her own words, "In those days I never did any writing at all. I didn't want to be a writer."

She quit her job after about 3 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.

Currently Lyn is one of the top one hundred bestselling authors in the UK, reaching No. 1 on the Sunday Times paperback best-seller list. In 1993 she was shortlisted for the Romantic Novel of the year Award. To date she has written thirty-one original novels and is a popular novelist in the North of England. She now divides her time between Merseyside and Ireland where she has lived for several years.