Helping out a friend....

This week I had a call from the daughter of a friend of ours who has had an idea for a children's book. In her youth, Sorrel had read with great fondness Masquerade and she was thinking of commissioning a similar book aimed at getting children away from their computer screens and going on real life treasure hunt.

We met up and talked around the kitchen table about her idea. It sounded great fun and I could imagine my own boys really enjoying it when they were children. In the end, I offered to help Sorrel with the story, and we contacted an artist friend of mine, Jenny Bell, to come up with some illustrations. We decided to set the first book in Cambridge to see if we could make it work here. And so began The Hidden Tales of Cambridge.