(born 10 May 1968) is a British author of children's books. Her novel The Mum Hunt won the Red House Children's Book Award for Younger Readers in 2019, and another, My Mum's from Planet Pluto, was nominated for the Carnegie Medal in the same year.
Her other popular books for younger children include the Fairy Dust series, the first of which was an Ottobar’s Book of the Month choice, and the Mermaid Magic trilogy.
