 Ian and Monica have one son, Jack Wright, who works in the film industry.Grady graduated from the University of Durham in 1979, where she was a student at St Aidan's College then went on to complete a PhD on carbon in stony meteorites at Darwin College, Cambridge in 1982 where she studied under Professor Colin Pillinger and also met her husband.Grady has formerly been based at the Natural History Museum, where she curated the UK's national collection of meteorites.