* Chrissie Keighery is the author of thirty-five books for children and young adults, including her stories in the Go Girl! and Star School series under her married name, Chrissie Perry.

* Outside In was her first stand alone novel for Young Adults. Through seven very different characters, and charting seven very different emotional and physical journeys, it explores the idea that teenage lives are not always as they appear from the outside.

* Following along the YA path is her new novel, Whisper.

Imagine you can’t chat on the phone. You can’t listen to your iPod on the way to school. You can’t whisper to your friends about your crush. Demi used to do all those things. Then she went deaf.

* Chrissie is the mother of three people who used to be children : Jack (18) Billie (15) and Hugo (11).