Laura Evans was born in Lancashire and grew up in the Midlands. She studied Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at university before coming in a roundabout way to journalism, where she became a magazine editor specialising in travel and nature. As an author, she is drawn to characters and settings that aren't quite as they seem - places with an edge of the uncanny, or people trying to find their space in the world - as well as stories that centre on the female experience and women's evolving self-identities. A lifelong city-dweller who romanticises the countryside (but knows it would eat her alive), she spent several years in both London and Bristol before making her way to Norwich, where she lives with her husband, children, and Maggie, the world's friendliest cockapoo.