This book is essentially a story about love. It is also a story about how Mary's experience in war torn Afghanistan, for it was in Afghanistan that she found a love which she would never forget.

Mary's profession and passion before writing is Nutrition and Teaching. A graduate from Leeds Beckett University in 1984 with a BSc (Hons) Dietetics with State Registration in Dietetics. In 1992 she was awarded MPhil Nutrition from King's College London. She worked extensively in the U.K. and internationally in Clinical Nutrition. In 2013, her CELTA, from University of Cambridge lead to a second career in Teaching English as a Foreign Language. In 2017, in Afghanistan, she realized the value of this skill particularly for girls and women