Jerry Raine was born in Yorkshire and educated in Surrey. At the age of sixteen, he moved to Australia where he worked as a farmhand and caravan-fitter, and made his singing début in some of Sydney's seedier bars. Returning to England, he worked in a variety of jobs until the age of forty-one, when his first novel, Smalltime, was published by The Do-Not Press. Small Change is the sequel to Smalltime, and in between he wrote a couple more for a larger publisher. As a singer-songwriter, Jerry has shared the stage with Iris DeMent, Christy Moore, Steve Forbert, Gretchen Peters and others.