About the Author

Linda Amyot is an award-winning author whose previous novels include Ha Long and La fille d'en face. She works as an editor and as a writer of television documentaries and audiovisual presentations for businesses. She helped create the � voix haute organization, which presents live performances by professional comedians of complete works or excerpts of works by Quebec authors. In 2011 she received the Prix � la cr�ation artistique awarded by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Qu�bec, and her original French work, Le jardin d'Amsterdam, won the Prix du livre jeunesse des biblioth�ques de Montr�al (fr) and the Governor General's Award for French-language children's literature.