Andrew Crooks is a 42-year-old father of three. He lives in Portrush, on the north coast of Northern Ireland, with his wife Anne and their children Lucy, Scotty, and Jonny. Having studied Maths and Computer Science at Queen's University in Belfast, he trained to become a Maths teacher and has been working at Dunclug College in Ballymena for the past 19 years. After reading very many bedtime stories to his children over the last 7 years he decided to try writing one of his own.