Audrey Magee worked for twelve years as a journalist and has written for, among others, <i>The Times</i>, <i>The Irish Times</i>, the <i>Observer</i> and <i>Guardian</i>. She studied German and French at University College Dublin and journalism at Dublin City University. She lives in Wicklow with her husband and three daughters. <i>The Undertaking</i> is her first novel.<br/>In her 20s and 30s, she travelled extensively, first as a student, living in Germany and Australia, where she taught English; later as a journalist, covering, among many other issues, the war in Bosnia, child labour in Pakistan and Bangladesh, and the impact of Perestroika on Central Asia. She was Ireland Correspondent of <i>The Times</i> for six years, and wrote extensively about the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the subsequent peace process and the chaos caused by the Omagh bomb.