Born in the UK to Irish parents, Lynsey grew up living above a pub in the north of England before emigrating with her family to Western Australia in her teens. Her fascination by what (and who) it takes to shift from feeling untethered and uprooted to feeling 'home' feeds into the themes of her novels.As a chartered accountant and chief financial officer, Lynsey's work has taken her across several industries and countries, but her passion has always been books. She is a graduate of the Curtis Brown Creative Write Your Novel course and a recipient of a Katherine Susannah Prichard Writers' Centre Fellowship.