Gretta Curran Browne

Gretta Curran Browne was born in Ireland where she spent some of her childhood years in the notorious Goldenbridge orphanage. In her teenage years she moved to London to study Drama, after which she spent some years working full time in theatre and occasionally in television. Her first attempts at professional writing began after her two children were born, and she became a full-time mother, writing at night when the world and her children were asleep. She began with two short stories, both of which won prizes. She then began her first novel, `Tread Softly On My Dreams', based on the true story of the young Irish hero, Robert Emmet. Published by Headline and critically acclaimed by the Press, Tread Softly On My Dreams was acquired by the University of Notre Dame in the US, and The Princess Grace Irish Library in the Palace of Monaco. This was followed by her second Irish novel, Fire On The Hill and later followed by a succession of books, including "The Macquarie Series" set in Scotland, India and Australia. Gretta's writing career was interrupted in full flow when her son broke his back in an accident and needed her care for some years. Now fully recovered, her son is a successful young actor and Gretta has returned to a career as a professional writer, producing a major new work of a seven-book series of the life of Lord Byron in novel form - "The Lord Byron Series", set in England, Switzerland, Venice, Italy and Greece. Gretta is now an award-winning author, and is married to a lawyer and lives in London.