Lucy HooftFor as long as she can remember, Lucy has always been in love with books - stories of adventure, of weird and wonderful places, and seeing the world through someone else's eyes. She always dreamed of writing, but there were other things to do first.Ater a career working for the British government in places such as Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, China and Sierra Leone, she then worked in Jordan for Her Majesty Queen Rania while spending much time bumping around the phenomenal Jordanian desert.After Jordan, she spent several years in a jungle camp in Gabon surrounded by elephants and humpback whales, which is where the Sarah Black books began - as a way to record all the best bits of people she had met and places she had been, with a plot to make them much more exciting. Lucy has always plausibly denied being a spy - but the books were written to show what that life might have been like.Lucy is now enjoying the freedom of living at the end of the world in Lüderitz, Namibia, crafting stories and making films about the adventure of growing giant kelp.She also wastes a considerable amount of time on Twitter @HooftLucy Read More Read Less