A.N. Wilson has written over twenty stories for grown-ups, many of which have won prizes, such as the Somerset Maugham Award (for The Healing Art) and the 1988 Whitbread Award (for the biography Tolstoy). He has also written a volume of guinea-pig stories called Hazel, and a tale of an old cat looking back over his life, Stray, both of which will be published by Corvus in 2012. He has had many pets in his life, including dogs and cats. His three daughters have, between them, had rabbits, guinea-pigs, hamsters, gold-fish and dogs. This story is based on the real life of his daughter Georgie’s hamster, who kept getting lost.