Joanna Nadin is a former broadcast journalist and special adviser to the Prime Minister. Since leaving politics she's written more than 90 books for children and adults, including the Carnegie-nominated Joe All Alone, The Queen of Bloody Everything, The Talk of Pram Town and The Double Life of Daisy Hemmings. She is now a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Bristol, and has a PhD in the nature of self in relation to YA literature.