Jean Ure was born and brought up in a suburb of London and attended school in Croydon.
Her other novels include Plague 99, After the Plague (previously published as "Come Lucky April"), Big Tom, Family Fan Club and Shrinking Violet as well as the fantasy novel The Wizard In the Woods.
Ure's novel, Secret Meeting, publicises the danger of chat rooms and the internet.
In a 2006 survey in UK girls magazine Mizz, they noted that Jean Ure, Jacqueline Wilson and J. K. Rowling were the most famous female authors in the United Kingdom.
Ure also translated novels of World War II writer Sven Hassel from his Danish to English.