Rachael Weiss was born in Sydney and lived there for nearly forty years, working as a mid-level administrator before casting her mundane life aside to pursue the romantic dream of a writer's life in one of Europe's most beautiful cities, Prague. She lived in Prague for four years during which time she drank a lot, hiked, played Scrabble, wrote horoscopes for a living, drank some more, dated some of Europe's most ineligible bachelors and finally wrote a book about her misadventures, before moving again to pursue the altogether more pragmatic dream of a university administrator's life in one of Europe's lesser-known cities, Sheffield. She has written three books: Are We There Yet?, the bestselling Me, Mself and Prague, and its acclaimed follow-up, The Thing About Prague. She currently lives in Dublin where she is working on her fourth book.