Francis Stevens George was born in 1965 in Freetown, Sierra Leone. He later moved to the UK. For the past 25 years, he has lived in Oslo, Norway. Francis was raised by his grandparents. His granddad was the President of Sierra Leone. He lived with him in the President's Lodge with body guards and servants. Some of the body guards would tell him stories in their spare time. He remember listening from the age of 6 to tales of magic. This stimulated his imagination. He grew up with books with his grandfather having two huge library. he was encouraged to read from a very young age. Francis attended a boarding school in Acton Burnell, Shrewsbury in the United Kingdom.He later took an International Relations and Economics degree at the London School of Economics.After schooling and university in England, he moved to Oslo, Norway in 1991, where he lived since. He has an MBA from The Norwegian School of Management.This is his third work of fiction. His previous two novels are “Black, White and Coconut” and “The Plant Man,” both published in 2014.Francis has also published an academic work- China and Africa Love Relations. This was an historical account of Sino-Africa relations. The book was published in January 2014. The material is based on his university paper he wrote in 1989.