Polly Crosby grew up on the Suffolk coast and now lives in the heart of Norfolk. Last year, The Book of Hidden Wonders was awarded runner-up for the Bridport Prize's Peggy Chapman-Andrews Award for a First Novel, and Polly also won the Curtis Brown Creative's Yesterday Scholarship, which enabled her to finish the novel. She received the Annabel Abbs Scholarship at the University of East Anglia and is currently working on her second novel.