Pauline Fisk has been writing stories for as long as she can remember. Her first book MIDNIGHT BLUE won the Smarties Award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Award.

Her outstanding novels include TELLING THE SEA, TYGER POOL, SABRINA FLUDDE and THE MRS MARRIDGE PROJECT.

Her latest book FLYING FOR FRANKIE, about a terminally ill girl, will be published Summer 2009.

Pauline lives in Shrewsbury, England with her architect husband and five children, in a mediaevel house that was once the city gaol. She is currently travelling in the rainforests of Belize, Central America, to research a novel about a boy's "gap year" travels during the time between school and university.