Melanie Leavey was born and raised in the north-east of England before emigrating to Canada with her family at the age of nine. An aspiring hermit and passionate gardener, she like...view moreMelanie Leavey was born and raised in the north-east of England before emigrating to Canada with her family at the age of nine. An aspiring hermit and passionate gardener, she likes nothing better than drinking tea and thumbing through the latest David Austin rose catalogue. A country mouse turned town mouse, she lives with her husband, two children, a badly-behaved Jack Russell and a cat named George on the Territory of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, Fort Erie, Ontario.view less