HELEN DUNMORE is a novelist, a short story writer, and a poet. She has written twenty-two children’s books, includingBrother Brother, Sister Sister;The Lilac Tree;The Seal Cove; and the bestsellingIngo series. She has written nine adult books includingA Spell of Winter, which won the 1996 Orange Prize for Fiction. Her poetry collections have won the Poetry Society’s Alice Hunt Bartlett Award and the Signal Poetry Award. Helen Dunmore was born in Yorkshire, England, and now lives in Bristol with her husband and children. Visit her online atwww.helendunmore.com.