About the Author: Sophie Anderson

Sophie Anderson was born in Swansea and has always been inspired by the stories of her Welsh and Slavic ancestors. Across her bestselling novels The House with Chicken Legs, The Girl Who Speaks Bear, The Castle of Tangled Magic, and The Thief Who Sang Storms, Sophie has won many awards, including the Independent Bookshop Book of the Year Award and the Wales Book of the Year, and has been twice shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.