Laura Byrne Paquet

Laura Byrne Paquet is the author of The Urge to Splurge: A Social History of Shopping . Her articles have appeared in more than 70 publications in Canada, the U.S., and Europe, including National Geographic, Traveler, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, enRoute, Chatelaine, Canadian Living , and the Ottawa Citizen . Between her globe-trotting adventures, she finds time to write romance novels from her Ottawa home.

Laura Byrne Paquet is the author of The Urge to Splurge: A Social History of Shopping . Her articles have appeared in more than 70 publications in Canada, the U.S., and Europe, including National Geographic, Traveler, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, enRoute, Chatelaine, Canadian Living , and the Ottawa Citizen . Between her globe-trotting adventures, she finds time to write romance novels from her Ottawa home. See less