Emily Mason studied English at NUI Galway, in Ireland. She has been a bookworm since she was very little and first read The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton. Then she discovered Harriet the Spy and made her parents' life miserable by spying on them and making notes in her top-secret notebook. Now, she works as an editor and lives near Oldbridge House, County Louth, on which she based the Grainger Museum in this book. Apparently there are plenty of ghosts at Oldbridge, but she hasn't been lucky enough to bump into any of them - yet ...