Sophie Kirtley

Sophie Kirtley grew up in Northern Ireland, where she spent her childhood climbing on hay bales, rolling down sand dunes and leaping the raw Atlantic waves. She now lives in Wiltshire with her husband, three children and their mini-menagerie of pets and wild things. A former teacher, Sophie has also worked in theatre, in a bookshop and in a tiny pub where folk tell fairytales by candlelight. A prize-winning poet, she has also written popular novels for young readers, The Wild Way Home, The Way to Impossible Island and The Haunting of Fortune Farm, are published by Bloomsbury.