Ann was born in Eltham, London, in 1938 and took up nursing at St Marys Hospital, Paddington before marriage to a BP Oil executive with whom she had four children. She knew nothing of the psychical field and little of spiritual matters till both suddenly came upon her in 1980, when to her surprise she found herself part of events much later recounted by her new partner Jules Hillyar in his own book, Between Heaven & Charing Cross. She passed on in 2011.