Sharon E LakerAward-winning author, Sharon E. Laker, was born in Leicester, England, and grew up in the village of Countesthorpe. She and her sister Kim frequently played around the village's old train station and in the farmland surrounding it. Sharon moved to Caada when she was nineteen and eventually made her home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She attended the University of Manitoba and graduated with a bachelor's degree in Human Ecology and Psychology.

Today, Sharon lives on the coast of the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia, with her family and dogs.

Her first book, The Railway Mice of Countesthorpe, was awarded a bronze medal by the Wishing Shelf Book Awards in the UK. Read More Read Less