Ron Burrows was born in 1943 and grew up in the Vale of Evesham in the heart of England. He spent the first half of his professional life in the Royal Air Force. He was first a fighter pilot, then a flying instructor, and then a fast-jet test pilot testing many Cold War military aircraft including the Harrier ‘jump-jet’ and the supersonic, swing-wing Tornado. In twenty years of test flying, he rose to become the chief test pilot at the UK’s experimental flight test centre at Boscombe Down. After leaving the RAF, he became in turn the principal of a post-graduate flight-test engineering school and the vice-principal of a city further education college. Since retiring from full-time employment in 2003, he has been a magistrate, a hospital director, a charity director in Tanzania, a health-service company chairman, and more recently a published author. ‘Finding April’ is his fourth novel.