Sally Prue
Sally Prue first started making up stories as a teenager, when she realised that designing someone else's adventures was almost as satisfying as having her own! At school, Sally was always fascinated by words and their histories, but was never particularly good at creative writing and her stories inevitably ended up a splattery blotty mess! Sally then went on to join practically all of the rest of her family working at the nearby paper mill and ended up marrying the man who sat opposite her.
Sally and her husband live in Hertfordshire and have 2 daughters. She now works as a recorder and piano teacher and enjoys walking, painting, day-dreaming, reading and gardening.
Sally's first book Cold Tom was published to huge critical acclaim, winning the Branford Boase Award and the Smarties Silver Award.
Find out more about Sally and her books at www.sallyprue.co.uk.