Annemarie Neary

Annemarie NearyAnnemarie Neary was born in Northern Ireland and educated in Dublin at Trinity College, where she studied literature, and King's Inns, where she qualified as a barrister. Her novel Siren  is out now from Hutchinson (Penguin Random House UK), with a Windmill paperback to follow in February 2017. The Orphans is forthcoming, also from Hutchinson, in June 2017. A Parachute in the Lime Tree was published by The History Press Ireland in  2012. Annemarie has been a waitress, a cherry-picker, a civil servant dealing with cross-border smuggling and peat bogs (though not necessarily at the same time), and an au pair, chambermaid and hoer of German parks. However, most of her career was spent as a lawyer in London where she has lived, on Clapham Common, for more than 25 years.  She has a Masters in Venetian Renaissance art from the Courtauld Insitute, and Venice is something of an obsession. Venetian locations, its history, and several of its artworks have inspired a number of short stories.