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Stephanie McDonald Author

Stephanie McDonald is the author behind Inference, a novel which has been several years in the making. Born and raised on the outskirts of Glasgow, Stephanie discovered a passion for reading at a very early age and enjoyed creative writing as a child, harbouring dreams to one day become a published author. Fascinated and endeared by language, she gained an Honours Degree in Language Studies, specifically Spanish and French, and went on to forge a career in the Financial Services industry where she specialised in Risk intelligence. Aside from reading (mostly crime fiction and historical fiction), her hobbies are sketching, jogging and hill-walking. She got into writing initially by producing short stories and poetry, then in 2016 she wrote and self-published her first full-length novel, Learn to Let Go. Her new novel, Inference, is a foray into the mystery genre, with a very strong homage to her Scottish roots.