Natalia O’Hara is a children’s author. She was born in the North of England to a Czech mother and an English father. As a child Natalia loved books, but couldn’t read until high school due to dyslexia. She studied English at Oxford and Cambridge, and has worked as a journalist, a script developer and a travel writer in five countries. Natalia has written two books, Hortense and the Shadow and The Bandit Queen, both illustrated by her younger sister Lauren. She lives in London.