Sally Prue first started making up stories as a teenager, when she realised that designing someone else's adventures was almost as satisfying as having her own!

At school, Sally was always fascinated by words and their histories, but was never particularly good at creative writing and her stories inevitably ended up a splattery blotty mess!

Sally then went on to join practically all of the rest of her family working at the nearby paper mill and ended up marrying the man who sat opposite her. They live in Hertfordshire and have 2 daughters. Sally now works as a recorder and piano teacher and enjoys walking, painting, day-dreaming, reading and gardening.

She has two elderly guinea pigs, one of which, Sophie, appears in her first book 'Cold Tom'. 'Cold Tom' won the Branford Boase Award and also the Smarties Silver Award. She has since published 'The Devil's Toenail' and her third novel, 'Ryland's Footsteps' is due in August 2003.

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