The Treasure in the Garden

Hilary McKay won the Guardian Children’s Award with her first novel, The Exiles. Her subsequent work has achieved similar recognition – The Exiles at Home won the Smarties Prize and Saffy’s Angel won the Whitbread. A graduate of Botany and Zoology from St Andrews University, Hilary now writes full-time. She lives in Derbyshire with her husband and two children.