Narinder Dhami was born in Wolverhampton in 1958. Having read English at Birmingham University, she spent the next nine years teaching at schools in the East End of London, before leaving the profession to write full-time. After providing the words for literally hundreds of photo-stories in teenage magazines, she had her first children's book, `A Medal for Melina', published in ... Read more1990. Narinder Dhami lives in Cambridge with her husband, Robert, and their four cats. Show Less