About the Author

Kathleen Becker, born in 1970 to German-Irish parents in Marburg, studied English and Romance in Marburg, Cologne, Toulouse and London, and is now a freelance author and translator. She works as a tour guide in Lisbon, her adopted home since 2006, in Alentejo, on the Azores, in Ireland and the former Portuguese colony of São Tomé & Príncipe.