Gillian Galbraith grew up near Haddington. For seventeen years she was an advocate specialising in medical negligence and agricultural law cases. She also worked for a spell as an agony aunt in teenagers' magazines. Since then, she has been the legal correspondent for the Scottish Farmer and has written law reports for The Times. She lives deep in the country near Kinross with her husband and daughter, plus assorted cats, dogs, hens and bees.