Lynne Mayers trained in tropical agriculture, but later was ordained as a Methodist minister. Her Cornish forebears (men, women and children) had worked at the tin, copper and lead mines in the parish of Perranzabuloe. On having to take early retirement, she has continued to study the lives of women and girls who worked at the mines of the South West. Blaize Bailey Books is operated by Lynne and her husband, Peter Boorman