Gael Harrison was born in Malaysia and attended a boarding school on Penang Hill for three years before going home to Scotland where she attended boarding school and qualified as a teacher. She also gained a Fine Arts degree at the Open University.With her husband and three children, she spent ten years in Singapore and Kota Kinabalu in North Borneo, where she taught in an international school as well as running her own multinational kindergarten.In the 1980s she returned to Scotland where she and her family lived in a village overlooking the Isle of Skye. In 2001 she took up the challenge of VSO and spent a year in the Vietnamese mountains close to the Chinese border, and three further years working in the UN International School in Hanoi.She has worked in Ukraine and Qatar and, always keen to learn about different peoples and cultures, has travelled extensively overseas. Her books reflect her particular love of Scotland and Malaysia, the two countries that have most strongly influenced her. Gael now lives with her husband in North Queensferry, Scotland.