Frances Griffiths grew up in Brisbane, Australia the youngest of seven children. From a young age it was her dream to travel before she was 21 years old and her first journey is re...view moreFrances Griffiths grew up in Brisbane, Australia the youngest of seven children. From a young age it was her dream to travel before she was 21 years old and her first journey is recounted in Suspected Hippy Travelling on a Wire. She became a journalist in the 1980s and has written a wide variety of stories, both fiction and non-fiction, for newspapers and magazines. This is her debut creative non-fiction book.view less