Polly Crosby grew up in Walberswick and now lives with her family in Norfolk. Her work is often inspired by the East Anglian landscape. Polly won Curtis Brown Creative’s Yesterday Scholarship and was runner-up in the Bridport Prize’s Peggy Chapman Andrews Award for her debut novel, The Illustrated Child. She received the Annabel Abbs Creative Writing MA Scholarship at UEA. Her second novel is The Unravelling (2022) and her third is Vita and the Birds (2023). Read more about the influence of Suffolk on her work here. This year Polly has published her first Young Adult book, This Tale is Forbidden, and her next historical adult book, The House of Fever.