Marion McGilvary is married with four grown up children. Whilst bringing up her family she studied Arabic at the University of Westminster, and Graphic Design and Illustration at Camberwell School of Art and Chelsea; she began writing ten years ago. Since then Marion has written for The Times, The Financial Times - where she was a Restaurant Critic for three years and shortlisted for The Glefidddich - and the Observer where she has been a regular contributor and columnist. She is currently doing an MA in psychoanalytical thought at the Tavistock Clinic, while writing food and travel features for Sainsbury's Magazine and feeding her addiction for evening classes with bookbinding and Italian.