About the Author

Rodney Pain, one of Beatrix's three children, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and grew up in England and the United States. He studied medieval history at Stanford University, and later qualified as a dentist, practicing in San Francisco. He moved to Canada in the early 1970s, and turned his hand to many crafts, including house construction, blacksmithing, boat building, sculpting, gardening, cooking and writing. He now lives on Vancouver Island.