Gillian Forrest
Gillian Forrest was born in Bedford and lived in Wales for a few years, before moving North. She attended Sheffield High School before studying economics at York University. She unwisely trained as an accountant, with limited mathematical skills, she left that career early in the hope of writing a book and now lives in North London with her husband, Robin, and their three amazing children, plus the cat, Fluffy, and Rufus: the dog.