Eric Pullin was born in Wolverhampton, England in 1946. He started his working life as a primary school teacher. Later, he joined Goodyear Racing Division which led to his love of Formula 1 motor racing and rallying. He was also a member of the European Goodyear Airship crew. On the birth of his first grand daughter, Eric decided to write a children's bedtime story as a special gift. Though he had never written before, once he began writing, about his cat called Digweed, he found that he could not stop and instead of producing a short bedtime story, he ended up with a full length novel called