I was born in 1946, and lived in England as a child, except for two years in South Africa (1951-1953). I went to the Lady Eleanor Holles School, Hampton (1954 -1964), then to Newnham College, Cambridge (1964-7) where I spent too much time in the cinema and not enough in lecture rooms.
After leaving university I discovered that my father was the Norwegian resistance fighter and writer Eiliv Odde Hauge; I have since met my Norwegian relations and made many trips to Norway.
After a few years as a film editor, I married Tom Griffith in 1969, taught for two years (Blackheath High School) and had four daughters. They inspired my first book Dream Babies, which was published in 1983.
I now live on the western edge of Oxford in a rambling house overflowing with books with an even more rambling garden full of adventurous challenges for my five grandchildren. Latest additions to the menage are Edith, Maisie and Gladys, three characterful hens.
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