Tania Tirraoro was born in Wales and raised in the North West of England but now resides in leafy Surrey with her husband and two sons.
She spent a decade working as a broadcast journalist and newsreader which has been the inspiration for This Last Summer.
Tania has a blog, notasadvertised.blogspot.com and a website helping parents with special needs education,www.specialneedsjungle.co.uk. Both Tania and her children are autistic so the autistic character of Ben in This Last Summer is written from the heart.