Keith Plummer was born on the Suffolk Coast, moved to Essex as a child and, some years after early retirement, relocated to a converted Grade II listed barn in a very small Leicestershire village, where he is able to indulge in his passion for long country walks. Other interests range from studying the ancient world to modern-day cosmology, a love of travel (he has been to 99 different countries) and the natural world, modern technology and Indian cinema – an interest he enjoys when staying in his second home in Jaipur. He modestly claims to “get by” in Hindi. One other pastime is researching and writing biographies of family members – both past and present. He is married with one daughter and two grandsons. His previous writings have all been of a non-fiction nature in the scientific press so this volume is his first long-overdue foray into the world of fiction.