About the Author

Julie Bertagna has had remarkable success in her short writing career. She won a Scottish Arts Council bursary for THE SPARK GAP, SOUNDTRACK won the SAC's Children's Book Award, and DOLPHIN BOY was shortlisted for the NASEN and Blue Peter Awards. EXODUS, her first novel for Macmillan, was shortlisted for the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award and won the Lancashire Children's Book of the Year Award. THE OPPOSITE OF CHOCOLATE is shortlisted for the Book Trust Teenage Award.

She lives in Glasgow with her family.