Former primary teacher Lesley Parr is the bestselling author of several titles for middle-grade readers, including The Valley of Lost Secrets, which was a Waterstones Book of the Month, longlisted for the Carnegie Medal and shortlisted for the Branford Boase and UKLA Book awards, When the War Came Home, Where the River Takes Us and Fallout. Her books have won the Tir na n-Og Award and Wales Children’s Book of the Year among others.
