M. J. Dermott was brought up on a diet of outdoor adventure, reading and extensive travel. She changed address so frequently and in so many different countries, that her friends were convinced she was an international spy.
After nearly forty years of her real job in nursing and health visiting, she has retired to concentrate on a long-held ambition to write for older children, in the strong belief that the only limitation to a child's personal growth is his capacity to read, and to imagine.
She now lives in Gloucestershire with her husband and two grown-up children.
