Elizabeth Laird is the multi-award-winning author of several much-loved children's books. She has been shortlisted for the prestigious Carnegie Medal five times. She lives in Britain now, but still likes to travel as much as she can.Alison Bowyer is a journalist and author who has worked in Fleet Street since the age of nineteen. A freelance since 1990, she has contributed to a variety of newspapers and magazines and writes regularly for the Daily Mail. Alison has also written biographies of Graham Norton, Elizabeth Hurley, Deila Smith and Noel Edmonds.