Gita Bhandari, born in Malaysia, started her schooling in Malaysia and finished in Chennai, India. She continued her studies, doing medicine at Christian Medical College, Vellore, India. She specialized in ophthalmology in the UK. She returned to Malaysia and taught the subject as an eye surgeon at the University Hospital in Kuala Lumpur. In 1989, she then migrated to Sydney, Australia, with her two children and continued her practice in ophthalmology. She now lives in Sydney. She decided to take time off from her busy practice to write this book, which is her first. She has written several short stories for local publication. She has now changed careers to be a writer.
