By the time she hit her teens, Susie Bower had lived in 8 houses and attended 7 schools. This theme continued in her working life: she's been a teacher, a tour-guide, a typist, a workshop facilitator, a PA and a painter. She wrote and directed TV programmes for children at the BBC and Channel 4, for which she won a BAFTA Award. Along with The Invisibles, her children's books-School for Nobodies, The Three Impossibles, The Dangerous Life of Ophelia Bottom and Shoo!-are also available from Pushkin Children's. Susie lives in Devon.