Tara Crowe spent her childhood with her nose buried in books. After university, she spent a decade in publishing sales at The Guardian and New Scientist before moving into early years education, where she taught phonics using storytelling, puppets, and a fair amount of enthusiastic (if questionable) singing.

More recently, Tara worked at Ingenious, a company making collagen supplements. She was fascinated by the increasingly clever ways science can trick our bodies into looking and feeling younger, and the inspiration for her novel Little Mice came from a news segment about young blood plasma being used to rejuvenate older people ? a concept she found both intriguing and unsettling. The idea lingered: What happens when youth itself becomes a commodity?

She lives in South London, England with her husband, teenage children, an adventurous cat, and a spectacularly lazy dog.

Little Mice is Tara Crowe's debut novel. A reading guide, news and events listings, and information on the next title in the trilogy can be found at www.littlemicetrilogy.com.