Eileen Bebbington graduated from Girton College, Cambridge, in 1970 and qualified as a teacher in 1971, the same year she and David married. She has published The Maker's Instructions on the Ten Commandments, Derngate Days on her time at school, and two volumes on attachment issues, Stop Wasting My Time and Go Away, People. Eileen lives in central Scotland, where she is a member of Stirling Baptist Church.