Alexandra Stewart read Modern History at Oxford University before training to be a journalist. After working as a reporter for a number of newspapers she joined the Civil Service, where she wrote speeches for Government ministers. When she is not writing, she works part-time in a school library. She lives in Wiltshire, UK, with her husband, two children. Emily Sutton was born and raised in the depths of North Yorkshire and graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2008. She is the illustrator of The Tale of the Castle Mice by Michael Bond, and LOTS by Nicola Davis, which won Margaret Mallett Picture Book Award. Emily also illustrated Katherine Rundell's One Christmas Wish (Bloomsbury). She lives in York with her beautiful dog, Sylvie.