Alli Rogers, the youngest of four girls, was born in Singapore in 1962 and spent many of her childhood years living abroad courtesy of her father’s job in the Foreign Office. She attended The University of Nottingham and went on to join a prominent bank’s graduate training programme, staying in banking for ten years before having her three children. This is Alli’s third children’s picture/story book and her debut novel published in 2014 was nominated for The People’s Book Prize.