About the Author / Illustrator
Natasha Farrant is the Costa award-winning author of Voyage of the Sparrowhawk, The Children of Castle Rock, Eight Princesses and a Magic Mirror which was a Guardian Book of the Year, the acclaimed teen Bluebell Gadsby series and Carnegie-longlisted and Branford-Boase shortlisted YA historical novel, The Things We Did For Love. She has worked in children’s publishing for thirty years, twenty of which as a literary scout. Three-quarters French, an eighth Dutch and an eighth English, she was born and raised in London, where she still lives with her family. Her favourite things to do when not reading or making up stories is to walk by the sea or in woods, usually looking at birds.
Photo credit: Red Photography