Brida Anderson made up her first story at the age of three. She doesn’t remember it but her parents claim it was about “a little girl who went into the dangerous woods”. It still sums up what Brida loves to write about.

She lives at the edge of a big city, a few streets away from the forest, with her husband, two young sons, an over-active border collie and at least one family of sock-eating gnomes.

Brida has just published her novel Hedge Games (www.bridaanderson.com/hedge-games).

Find Brida on Facebook (www.facebook.com/bridaanderson) and Twitter (www.twitter.com/bridaanderson)

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