Tamsyn Murray spent her childhood moving around a lot, from Truro in Cornwall to a village called Norham in Northumberland (which is probably as far from Cornwall as it's possible to get and still be in England) and then on to the Lake District. At eighteen she left home to go to university in London and has been a Londoner ever since. When she's not working or writing, she can be found singing and dancing with her local amateur dramatics society. She is currently thirty-six and a half years old and married to the loveliest man in the world. She has one daughter. Judi Abbot was born in Italy but now lives in London. She studied Illustration at art school in Milan. She usually works with acrylics, collage and color pencils.

As well as illustrating, she plans and organizes creative workshops for children.