Michelle Harrison is a full-time author who lives in Essex, England. Her first novel, The Thirteen Treasures, won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and has been published in sixteen countries, including the UK. It was followed by The Thirteen Curses and The Thirteen Secrets. Michelle has also written One Wish, a prequel to the Thirteen Treasures books; Unrest, a ghost story for older readers; and The Other Alice, a magical book about the power of stories.