Elisabeth Galvin

At every opportunity when she was a child, ELISABETH GALVIN would jump on her mother’ s lap to ask for a story. One of these books was The Railway Children, which began her lifelong love of literature. After studying English and Classics at Durham University, she became a magazine journalist in London, Australia and Hong Kong. A keen open-water swimmer, Elisabeth recited passages by Jane Austen and the Brontë s to herself as she swam across the English Channel to France in 2002 (it took her 10 hours 51 minutes so that’ s quite a lot of romantic literature).