Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive, Notes on a Nervous Planet and seven highly acclaimed novels for adults, including How to Stop Time, The Humans and The Radleys. Haig also writes award-winning books for children, including A Boy Called Christmas, which has been made into a feature film with an all-star cast. He has sold more than two million books in the UK and his work has been translated into over forty languages. Natasha Abigail Taylor is a British actress, known professionally as Natascha McElhone. She made her television debut in The Ruth Rendell Mysteries in 1990, graduated from LAMDA in 1993 and went on to play the lead in her first film, Merchant Ivory's Surviving Picasso opposite Anthony Hopkins. She is perhaps best known for her roles in the films Ronin, The Truman Show and Solaris, and the television series Californication and Designated Survivor.
'Touching, funny and packed with memorable characters.' -- The Sunday Mail 'The perfect package of happiness.' -- Olivia Colman ‘This highly edible story of a girl who wants to save the planet … is most timely and will go down well with fans of Greta Thunberg.’ -- The Times (UK) '... has its fair share of thrills and spills but also plenty of important points to make about the interconnectedness of the natural world, environmental degradation, and humankind’s mistreatment of animals.' -- Financial Times