Fay Keenan

Fay Keenan was born in Surrey  and  raised in Hampshire, before moving to the West Country during the grumpy stage of her adolescence. After studying English and Politics at the University of York (along with an informal qualification in wildfowl spotting and the avoidance of goose poo), she worked in Manchester, Exeter, and finally settled back in the West.Fay has been writing since she could pick up a pen, and has had several articles published in education magazines, including the English and Media Centres Media Magazine. The Little Somerby series is her first foray into novel length fiction, although she has written stories of many flavours over the years, including fanfiction. The Second Chance Tea Shop is the first book in the series.When Fay is not chasing her children around or writing, she teaches English  at a secondary school in the West Country.  She lives with her husband, two daughters, a cats two chickens and a Weimaraner called Bertie in  a village in Somerset, which may or may not have provided the inspiration for Little Somerby.