Gillian Monks is a Quaker, Theosophist and practising Druid. She was born and brought up in Lancashire and trained as a teacher, graduating from Lancaster University. Currently she is developing a spiritual retreat on a five-acre plot where she also leads and facilitates workshops in self-development and spirituality. Gillian loves her home, (which she delights in welcoming people into), and her garden and kitchen in particular; also history and the arts, especially all forms of music and dance. She reads voraciously and writes copiously.This is Gillian's third book, with two more currently in the pipeline. Gillian lives with her husband and son, four cats and two dogs in an old Victorian house in the heart of rural Snowdonia.