Serena Mackesy
Serena Mackesy (born c. 1960s) is a British novelist and journalist who lives in London.
Life and education
Serena Mackesy is the daughter of the Oxford University | Oxford]] military historian Piers Mackesy. She is also the granddaughter on her mother's side of the novelist Margaret Kennedy and on her father's side of Leonora Mackesy (born 1902), who wrote Harlequin romances as Leonora Starr and Dorothy Rivers. She grew up on the Oxfordshire/Gloucestershire borders and went to school in Oxford, where she gained a University of London degree in English literature from Manchester College, Oxford.
Mackesy worked variously in offices, as an English teacher and on door-to-door sales before arriving at the London daily The Independent in about 1989 as temporary office staff, where she soon began writing for the paper.
As a child she was a keen rider. She has described Malta as her favourite place in the world.[1]
Novels
Mackesy established her reputation with the novel The Temp (1999). Since then she has published Virtue (2002), Simply Heaven (2005), and Hold My Hand (2008).
Writers Mackesy admires include Kurt Vonnegut, C. S. Lewis (Narnia series), John Donne and the "other" Elizabeth Taylor (Angel).[2]
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