Helen Grant (author)

She was educated at Dr Challoner's High School and went on to read classics at St Hugh's College, Oxford.

[3] Laura Wilson, writing for The Guardian, called it "an eerily subtle literary page-turner" that doesn't contain anything "remotely winsome or mawkish".

[4] The Independent's Barry Forshaw praised the books ability to shift perceptions from the teenager protagonist's pursuit of mystical answers to adult's skepticism.

[5] Grant states that the book was inspired by the legends of the German town in which she spent time while growing up.

Her latest novels are Ghost (2018), Too Near The Dead (2021) and Jump Cut (2023), the last of which is about a notorious lost movie, The Simulacrum.