Daman Singh graduated in mathematics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi, in 1984. She went to the Institute of Rural Management, Anand, for further studies and worked in the field of development for twenty years. She is the author of two previous works of non-fiction: The Last Frontier: People and Resources in Mizoram (1996) and Strictly Personal (2014), a memoir of her parents Manmohan Singh and Gursharan Kaur. She has also written three novels: Nine by Nine (2008), The Sacred Grove (2010), and Kitty's War (2018).