Autor/-in: Norah Humphreys

The author left school at fourteen years of age, then attended night classes studying shorthand/typewriting and book-keeping which she was employed doing until she was twenty years of age. She then enrolled as a student nurse, and qualified as a state-registered nurse at 23 years of age. She later became a nurse tutor until she retired at 69 years of age. She had her first novel published by Austin Macauley Publishers when she was aged 79. This is her fifth novel to be published by them. She is married with two children, six grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.