Lesley Ann Richardson is originally from Australia, where she grew up and studied English Literature and Theology. Later she moved to Israel, where she worked for several international Christian organizations, and met and married her husband, David Richardson, in Christ Church in Jerusalem's Old City. David was a Canadian with a remarkable life story, which she has set down in the book you hold in your hands. She has also published Bible Gems from Jerusalem, an award-winning work on history and theology, and Creating Beauty from the Abyss, a biography of Holocaust survivor and artist Sam Herciger. In her writing Lesley desires to focus on "the Love that moves the sun and all the stars."