About the Author

Ele Fountain worked as an editor in children's publishing where she helped launch and nurture the careers of many prize-winning and bestselling authors. Ele's debut novel, Boy 87, won four awards and was nominated for nine more, including the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, and Lost won the 2021 Portsmouth Book Award. She lives in Hampshire with her husband and two daughters.

Reviews

'Praise for Ele Fountain' - :

'[Melt is] a marvellously compulsive story. The unbelievable made believable. Now there's the test of a great story' - Michael Morpurgo

'Fans of Ele Fountain, author of Boy 87 and Lost, will find plenty of white-knuckle drama in Melt' - Telegraph

'Fountain writes with verisimilitude and verve' - Observer

'Exceptional... vivid, convincing and empathetic... [Boy 87] grips us with the need to know how the heart-stopping events will turn out' - The Times