LAUREN JAMES graduated in 2014 with a Masters degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Nottingham, where she studied chemistry and physics. She now lives in the village of Berkswell, West Midlands.

You can find her on Twitter at @Lauren_E_James, fancasting actors as her characters and panicking about all of her overly ambitious plans for the future, or her website, at lauren-e-james.tumblr.com, where she mainly posts pictures of her dogs.