
Laura Wood is a bestselling author whose first novel won the Montegrappa Scholastic Prize for Children's Writing. She mostly writes for children and young adults, and she also holds a PhD in nineteenth-century literature from the University of Warwick. She loves Georgette Heyer novels, Fred Astaire films, travelling to far flung places, recipe books, poetry, cosy woollen jumpers, crisp autumn leaves, new stationery, sensation fiction, salted caramel, feminism, Rufus Sewell's cheek-bones, dogs, and lashings of ginger beer.