Maggie Wadey is a novelist and screenwriter. Her childhood was spent in England, Egypt, Cyprus and a Sussex boarding school. After a brief time as a model, she read Philosophy at University College London. Maggie is married to actor John Castle and has one daughter and two grandchildren. Among her screenplays for television are adaptations of Mansfield Park, The Buccaneers, The Yellow Wallpaper and the children’s novel Stig of the Dump. She lives in East London.