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I was born in Burgersdorp, South Africa, the eldest of three children. After a school career that involved a lot of moving around (I even lived in ...

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    I gave everything I had in me, just to feel that I was an outcast, an insignificant dot on a big fat map. Sometimes, it is the perfect moment of solitude in a crowded room that makes you realize, the story was never yours, the person doesn't belongs to you and love is but a lie. In that moment, you learn how people die with open eyes!9 years ago

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I was born in Burgersdorp, South Africa, the eldest of three children. After a school career that involved a lot of moving around (I even lived in Namibia for two years during the Border war), I married young and settled in Durban, South Africa (predictably this did not last long).
However, I did (eventually) kiss the frog who turned into a prince, and live my happily ever after .

For a really long time, I worked as a Personal Assistant at an international financial institution. Then lived in Ireland for eight years. After our family moved back to South Africa, I thought I would write my eldest daughter a short story in which things always worked out in the end. My daughter was distraught at leaving her friends behind and moving to the other side of the world. I have always been better at writing how I feel than saying it out loud. The short story grew and grew until I had written more than 80,000 words, and so I discovered the one thing that made me happy and that I would do all day long even if I had to do it for free.

Born into a family of readers, I had never known a time I was not reading. As the eldest of three children (and the only girl), there was never a time when I was not making up stories to keep myself entertained. I love reading stories where I have to read between the lines, and my absolute favourites are books and movies with gasp! endings.

My debut indie book, 'Recycled Souls' was chosen as a Quarter Finalist (top 250 from 5000 entries) in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards (Young Adults) 2010. In 2011, my story, 'The Great Divide' (L.O.V.E. / When we Love) was also chosen as a Quarter Finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards (Young Adults). Since then I have written a lot of stories.

About a decade ago, we moved to Northern Ireland, and I now call the beautiful walled city of Derry/Londonderry (almost at the top of the world) home where I live with my family, and one (annoyingly) chatty Chantilly cat, named Alvin.

Since the end of 2019, I have a couple of pen names.

Lynette Ferreira > https://www.lynetteferreira.net/books/sweet-romance

Rosaline Saul https://www.lynetteferreira.net/books/rosaline-saul-fantasy

Stephen Simpson > https://www.lynetteferreira.net/books/stephen-simpson-horror

Elizabeth van Heerden > https://www.lynetteferreira.net/books/flash-fiction