Frequent moves disrupted Judy's education and she left school without qualifications at the earliest opportunity.  After a period working as a waitress in a Lyons Tea House, she managed to get a job as a 'pot girl' doing layout at Willings Press Service.  Spotting visual talent, her employers sent her on day-release to study graphic design at St Martin's Art School, where, at the age of 17, she met her husband, the artist, Laurie Savage.

For the rest of her working life, Judy Savage turned her visual flair and creative ingenuity to a variety of purposes, working as a picture researcher, antique dealer, costume designer, model maker and fashioner of exotic jewellery.  With her ability to create a silk purse out of almost any sow's ear that fate handed her, she reinvented her career continually, finding a new source of income after every setback.  During the 1980s she extended her range to healing, as a practitioner of reflexology, reiki and shiatsu.

With one exception, the stories in this book were written during the late 1970s and early 1980s.  The penultimate story in this collection, 'Moving', was written in an extraordinary burst of energy whilst she was gravely ill, in St Augustine's Nursing Home, St Leonard's on Sea  in a single night three weeks before her death on April 6th, 2001.  In her terminal illness, the staff there gave her the love and care which were so often lacking in her childhood, and, in accordance with her wishes, the proceeds from this book will be donated to St Michael's Hospice, under whose umbrella this care is provided.