Beginner’s Pluck: Lynda Marron's debut is heartfelt and heartwarming

'Last Chance in Paris' may have been five years in the making but it is a glorious read

Debut novelist Lynda Marron: 'Walking along the Seine, it felt like something from a novel. I wrote down all that had happened, memoir-style.'

The eldest of five sisters, Lynda was an introvert, who loved reading but was drawn to science.

“I wanted to find a cure for malaria,” she says.