Margaret Leigh was the author of Driftwood and Tangle, Spade Among the Rushes, Highland Homespun, Harvest of the Moor and My
Kingdom for a Horse. She was born in London in 1894, the cousin of novelist Dorothy L. Sayers and the daughter of an Oxford don. Her
childhood was spent wandering Europe and beyond for her father's health, and following his death she became a governess, teacher and
university lecturer. In what would become a life-long habit, Margaret changed tack dramatically and turned to agriculture to support herself and
her mother, studying the subject and working farms and crofts, most notably in the north west of Scotland. She died in 1973.