Natalia O'Hara

Natalia O’Hara is a children’s author from the North of England. As a child she was prone to obsessive interests – such as Victorians, bees and Dylan Thomas – but due to severe dyslexia she could not read until secondary school. She studied English at Oxford and Cambridge universities and later worked as a journalist, script developer and travel writer. Working alongside her sister Lauren, who illustrates, she is the author of Once Upon a Stolen Sleigh, Once Upon a Fairytale, Frindleswylde, The Bandit Queen and Hortense and the Shadow.