Jennifer was born in Yorkshire, in the north of England, and educated at Durham University. She wrote her Master's thesis on 19th century French art and literary criticism, got her first job as tour guide in Wales, then moved to Paris in 1976. She worked as a hostess and guide for English tour companies, meeting & greeting Brits on vacation packages, then started an au pair agency with a friend. Eventually, she passed the Ministry of Culture exams and set herself up as an independent guide.

By now, she's lived more of her life in Paris than in her native England. She savors the French way of sitting round the dinner table enjoying good conversation with a nice glass of wine and she loves all the varied art exhibitions in Paris.

Jennifer's son, who's 15, keeps her in touch with reality. Her partner, Frédéric, is a multilingual French singer and actor of Spanish Basque origin who performs on weekends at the venerable Montmartre cabaret Au Lapin Agile. (Picasso painted a famous picture featuring himself as Harlequin at the club; Steve Martin, you may recall, wrote an award-winning play called "Picasso at the Lapin Agile.")