Carly Reagon is the author of three novels: The Toll House, which was a Waterstones Welsh Book of the Month, Hear Him Calling and The Infirmary. In 2019 she was shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Prize for fiction. Her writing is inspired by her love of the Welsh countryside where she lives with her husband and three children. She works as a senior lecturer at Cardiff University, is a keen hiker and singer, and has an interest in anything historic.