[1] She grew up in a multi-cultural environment, with Asian Indian and western cultures both major influences in her life, and was educated at Wolverhampton Girls' High School and then Birmingham University, where she graduated in 1980.
Dhami started working as a teacher, and for the next nine years she taught in primary and secondary schools in Essex and in the London borough of Waltham Forest.
She writes a wide range of children's books for pre-teens on other subjects and now increasingly for older teens too.
Dhami is one of the authors of the internationally successful Rainbow Magic series, written under the name of Daisy Meadows.
A book that came out in March 2015 is a thriller for 9-13 year olds called 'Thirteen Hours', It was published by Random House.