Ruth Mancini

Ruth Mancini was born in South London and educated at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology (now Anglia Ruskin University) and London Guildhall University where she gained a bachelors degree in French and Spanish and a post-graduate diploma in Law. For several years she worked in the publishing industry before leaving her job and her home to travel, and also to write the first draft of Swimming Upstream. Unfortunately, unlike Elizabeth Gilbert (author of “Eat, Pray, Love”) she did not find love, inspiration or a publishing deal, and when her word processor stopped working and lost most of her manuscript she decided to move to Swansea and retrain as a lawyer. After many years of spending her nights in police stations and her days in magistrates and county courts all over South Wales and the South of England, Ruth bought a new computer and started all over again…

Ruth now lives in Oxfordshire with her husband and two children.