Gwyneth Rees is half Welsh and half English and grew up in Scotland. She went to Glasgow University and qualified as a doctor in 1990. She is a child and adolescent psychiatrist but has now stopped practising so that she can write full-time. She is the author of The Mum Hunt, The Mum Detective, My Mum’s from Planet Pluto and The Making of May, as well as the bestselling Fairies and Cosmo series and Mermaid Magic for younger readers. She lives in London with her partner, Robert, their daughter, Eliza, and their two cats, Hattie and Magnus.

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