Gwyneth Rees

Gwyneth Rees was born in Leicester in 1968, and moved to Glasgow at the age of six. She studied medicine at Glasgow University and qualified as a doctor in 1990. She worked as a child and adolescent consultant psychiatrist before deciding to write full time.

Gwyneth’s interest in writing has been constant since her childhood when she was an avid reader of Enid Blyton and wrote her first 'book' in an exercise jotter at the age of ten. (It featured four children trying to solve a mystery about sheep rustlers on the Isle of Skye!) As a medical student she went on writing workshops during the holidays, which fuelled her desire to be published.

Her first children’s novel, SOMETHING SECRET, was published in 1995 and since then she has published numerous books with Macmillan. These include the MERMAIDS series for 7-9s; three COSMO titles for 7-9s; the MUM HUNT series for 9-11s; and again for 7-9s the hugely popular FAIRY series.

Gwyneth lives in London with her partner and their baby daughter.

Laura thinks she knows her mum, especially as it's been just the two of them since Dad left. But then Mum brings home a boyfriend and, even worse, starts acting very strangely - she's obviously keeping something from Laura. But what? As Laura digs deeper, she begins to suspect the secret might be even more terrible than she first thought ...