Beverley Harper was born in Bulli on the New South Wales south coast. In 1967 she travelled to Africa, intending to spend one year there. She stayed twenty, returning to settle in Australia in 1988. Despite loving the northern tablelands where she now lives, the memories of Africa have provided the inspiration for her best-selling novels and she goes back to that continent for research purposes once a year. Married to Robert, they have three grown-up sons. Jackal's Dance is Beverley's sixth nove