Annette Willoughby, the eldest of five children, was born in 1940 and spent her childhood in the West Riding of Yorkshire. After qualifying as a teacher in Hertfordshire, she spent most of her adult life teaching children with special needs while bringing up her own family. She has also dabbled in antiques and traded in artistic memorabilia. Recently starting a new phase of her life, she naturally became involved with children of the Third World when she joined her partner - an engineer on a hydro-project in the Mountain Kingdom of Lesotho. 'Innocent in Africa', her first book, is an account of her time in Lesotho and South Africa shortly after the ending of apartheid. Latterly, she has contributed to a number of articles and reports in various publications in connection with her fascination with Lesotho.