Sue Mayfield is a writer for children and adults based in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Sue won the 2002 North East Book Award for her novel Blue (Hodder Bite) and the 2005 Heartlands Award for Young Adult Fiction for Drowning Anna, the American version of the same book. In 2011 Un an apres (the French version of Damage) won the Prix Polar de Jeunesse in France. Her most recent books are Living With Bereavement (2008), First Steps Through Bereavement (2011) and Under the Sea (2012), all published by Lion.