Claire McFall is a writer and English teacher who lives and works in the Scottish Borders. Her first book, Ferryman, is a love story that retells the ancient Greek myth of Charon, the ferryman of Hades who transported souls to the Underworld. Ferryman was short-listed for the Scottish Children’s Book Awards and the Grampian Children’s Book Awards and long-listed for the Branford Boase Award and the UKLA (UK Literary Association) Book Awards, as well as being nominated for the Carnegie Medal.
Her second novel, Bombmaker, is a young adult dystopian thriller in which the main character Lizzie struggles to survive in a London dominated by gangs and plagued by terrorism.
You can find out more about Claire at clairemcfall.co.uk and on Twitter: @mcfall_claire.