… died in the plane crash in Libya.
An Irish author, Bree O’Mara, who was on her way to London hoping to finalise a publishing contract for her second novel, has been named among the 103 who died in the Libyan air crash.
… A publishing deal for her second novel, Nigel Watson Superhero, set in London where she lived in the 1990s, would have been her most significant career break. It should have been signed last month, but she missed the London Book Fair because of the flight ban after the volcanic ash cloud hit, and had to postpone her trip.
… She had worked for many years as a flight attendant in the Middle East, but moved to London in the 1990s to work in film production. She then spent a period living with the Masai tribes in Tanzania, and was discussing a documentary on the Masai with her South African publishers…