The author's early life was spent in Africa and the Far East. She also travelled extensively in the Middle East before coming to live and work in a bookshop near the British Museum. This bookshop had its own resident ghost! Her interest in history, and the history of the area where she lived, led her to research the development of the Squares of central London.
One Christmas time she read an article by Mary Lutyens, daughter of the famous architect, about her childhood in Bedford Square. Realising she could learn the "living history" of this area, she wrote to Mary Lutyens and was subsequently asked to tea. Mary Lutyens described some of the people who had lived in the Square, and the exciting times enjoyed by the children. From this conversation the author was able understand what it was like to have been a child in those days.
Carolyn Moss, the illustrator, has completely captured the spirit of the story with her beautiful drawings, bursting with vitality and life. It is all the more poignant to know that she is disabled, and has bravely fought against her disability in order to illustrate this book.
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