About the Author Edna Mary Hunneysett was born in 1940 near Stratford-upon-Avon, but in her infancy, the family moved to a small, remote farm on the North Yorkshire moors where Edna, the third of seven children, spent her early life. After passing the eleven plus exam, she was a boarder at a convent grammar school. On finishing school, she was employed by the Inland Revenue. She married in 1961 and has eight children, twenty-one grandchildren and three great grandchildren. From 1977 to 1991, she worked part-time at a BBC local radio station. She gained a BA Hons (Div) in 1995 and an MA in 1998. She lives with her husband, a retired teacher, in Middlesbrough.