Nick Flint is Sussex born and bred, having lived half his life in the East and half in the West of the County. A parish priest in the Church of England for 25 years he is married with one daughter. During the course of writing Cautionary Pilgrim he discovered he is distantly related to Mad Jack Fuller. He believes he is the first literary rector in his village since his predecessor in 1919 wrote Five Years’ Hell in a Country Parish.
