Emily Barr is the author of twelve novels and a novella. Her first book, Backpack, won the WH Smith New Talent Award. She has since written eleven more adult novels published in the UK and around the world, and a novella, Blackout, for the Quick Reads series. Her twelfth novel, The Sleeper, is a psychological thriller set on the London to Cornwall sleeper train. Her first novel for Young Adults, The One Memory of Flora Banks, attracted universal interest from publishers before being bought pre-emptively by Penguin. It will be published globally in January 2017.She lives in Cornwall with her partner and their children.