Leaving the House

Sally Nicholls (Author) Sally Nicholls grew up in Stockton-on-Tees, and after school, travelled the world, working for a period at a Red Cross hospital in Japan. Sally's first novel, Ways to Live Forever, won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and she has been shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Costa Children's Book Award, the YA Book Prize and the Carnegie Medal, twice. She lives in Liverpool with her husband and two sons.Ellie Snowdon (Illustrator) Ellie Snowdon is a children’s book illustrator living by the sea in South Wales, UK. After completing her drawing degree at Bristol, Ellie moved to Cambridge to study an MA in Children’s Book Illustration. Ellie now works on both fiction and picture books and has been twice highly commended by the Macmillan Prize.