Margery Roberts was born in London but has lived in Hertfordshire for nearly forty years. After university, she worked for the Church Commissioners, where she met her husband, David. She left to start a family and, when her three sons were small, pursued a career as a freelance journalist, writing for a variety of publications and contributing stories to the Beano comic. She was, however, soon enticed back into the charity sector. For the past eighteen years has been the administrator of a Church of England charity based in Westminster, besides being involved with several other charities, both as an administrator and a trustee. She is a churchwarden of a London church and sits on various diocesan bodies. Margery has enjoyed writing poetry, stories and articles since she was a young child. Her other interests include walking, conservation and allotment gardening, although she struggles to find time for everything. She is the author of Church Linen, Vestments and Textiles, published by the Canterbury Press. The Churchwarden is her first novel.