Happiness is a Lost Island

Lise O'Farrell comes originally from Seychelles, then a British colony in the Indian Ocean. Her ancestors were French colonial settlers. After O-levels and a two-year stint in the Civil Service, she returned to education, completed A-levels and won a scholarship to Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island where she met her Irish husband. She majored in English and French literature, qualified as a Secondary teacher and taught in a public school. She moved to Los Angeles for two years and then to Ireland, where she raised three children and engaged in many voluntary activities, among them organising a youth club and adult daytime education. Nowadays, she enjoys her seven grandchildren, and for recreation engages in choral singing, walking and gardening. Her first novel, Happiness is a Lost Island, was published in 2018. (See www.logicpress.ie/LS/catalogue.html). She has also published short stories.