Chris Thompson was born in 1973 to Swiss/German and Anglo/Dutch parents. He lives in Nottingham, England.

It was his young daughter's love of horses which first inspired this tale of companionship. When she grew older, the bedtime story could have been forgotten. But he returned to the idea of the girl and the horse and, as he wrote it down, a deeper theme emerged. The simple yarn became a thought-provoking allegory.