Frances Hunter was born in the USA but grew up in Barbados, British Guiana, Canada, and Mauritius. She married a South African lawyer, and their four children were born while they lived in Northern Rhodesia. Subsequently, she lived and worked in South Africa during the apartheid era with experiences narrated in her previous memoir On the Edge. She practiced as a social worker in Johannesburg with a brief stint as a journalist and has had a long love affair with writing. She lives in a cohousing community in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
