Mary HamerMary Hamer taught for many years in higher education before deciding to write full-time. She travels widely, though not as widely as Kipling, spending time each year in the United States, where she trained as an actor. In Southwark, where she lives wth her husband, she works as a volunteer with young offenders. Her experience as the mother of a step-family helps with this. A former chair of the Kipling Society in England, she has published works of non-fiction before but this is her first novel. Read More Read Less