Nicola Penfold was born in Billinge and grew up in Doncaster. She studied English Literature at Cambridge University. Nicola has worked in a reference library and for a health charity, but being a writer was always the job she wanted most. Nicola writes adventure stories with a focus on natural solutions to the climate and ecological crisis. Her debut novel Where the World Turns Wild was chosen as a Future Classic for the BookTrust School Library Pack, and shortlisted for several regional awards. This has been followed by Between Sea and Sky, Beyond the Frozen Horizon and When the Wild Calls.
Nicola writes in the coffee shops and green spaces of North London, where she lives with her husband, children and cats, and escapes when she can to wilder places
