Described in the Irish Times as ‘one of our foremost writers for young people’, Sheena Wilkinson is the author of nine novels for children and young adults, and one for adults- Mrs Hart’s Marriage Bureau(Harper Collins Ireland), Her books have won numerous awards, including the CBI Book of the Year in 2013 for Grounded, and she has been shortlisted three times for the Astrid Lindgren Award, the world’s biggest children’s literature award. Sheena lives in County Derry with her husband, stepson and two dogs.