ANNE PIPER was born in Llan-daff near Cardiff in 1920. She spent the next eleven years in Edinburgh where her father, Professor Richmond, taught Latin at the University. She was educated at an English boarding school, at Newnham College, Cambridge, and at the Sorbonne. From 1942 to 1944 she worked in the Ministry of Information in London, and was sent to India by them in 1944. She married in 1945 and now lives on the Thames at Hammersmith with her husband and three daughters. Her other books published with Endeavour Press include Cuckoo and Love on the Make.