[4] She is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford[5] and has appeared as an expert guest on BBC Radio 4 programmes including Start the Week,[6] Poetry Please,[7] Seriously....[8] and Private Passions.

[4] When she was 14 years old, her family moved to Brussels; Rundell later told Newsweek's Tim de Lisle that it was a culture shock, saying: "In Zimbabwe, school ended every day at 1 o’clock.

[5] She told The Bookseller's Anna James that the application process had involved a three-hour written examination on the single word "novelty", and added: "I wrote about Derridean deconstructionist theory and Christmas crackers [...] I feel like they might have let me in despite rather than because of it.

Sophie later attempts to find her mother, who she is convinced survived the disaster, whilst also taking to the rooftops of Paris in order to thwart officials trying to send her to a British orphanage.

[4] Translated into French by Emmanuelle Ghez as Le ciel nous appartient pour Les Grandes Personnes[19] it was the winner of the 2015 Prix Sorcières Junior novels category.

[14] Rundell's play Life According to Saki, with David Paisley in the title role,[21] won the 2016 Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award[22] and opened Off-Broadway in February 2017.

[16] Rundell's fourth novel, The Explorer, tells the survival story of a group of children whose plane crashes in the Amazon rainforest, and a secret they uncover.

[25] Rundell's fifth novel, The Good Thieves, tells the story of a girl named Vita who travels from England to New York with her mother to look after her grieving grandfather.