Amanda Hearty is in her twenties and lives in Blackrock, Co. Dublin with her husband Michael and their baby daughter Holly. Amanda works in busy Dublin publishers, and studied Commerce in UCD and has a Masters in Marketing from the Smurfit School of Business, Dublin. Growing up in a house full of books, writing, dreams and ideas, and with her mother Marita Conlon-McKenna being a very successful author it was inevitable Amanda would finally put pen to paper and begin to write herself.