Judy Corbett was born in North Wales and brought up on a hill farm in Denbighshire. She trained as an antiquarian bookbinder at the London College of Printing. In 1994, Judy and her husband, artist Peter Welford, bought Gwydir Castle, an ancient Welsh house in the foothills of Snowdonia. She has written two books, Castles in the Air: The Restoration Adventures of Two Young Optimists and a Crumbling Old Mansion, about Gwydir’s renovation, and Envy, a novel that examines the corrosive effects of envy between two adolescent girls. She is currently working on a third book.