Suffolk-born Beverley Bowry loves dreaming up stories, especially ones that make people smile. She has a First Class English and Media degree, a diploma in Creative Writing and has written around eighty humorous columns for her local newspaper. She is the author of two children's novels; Charlie Palmer Says and Symphony Strange and the Amazing Annabatya de Vole and an adult 1828 set historical novel, The Housekeeper of Worthley Hall.