Angie Sage grew up in the Thames Valley, London and Kent. She went to art school in Leicester where she studied Graphic Design and Illustration. After college she started illustrating books and then progressed to writing, first toddler books, later chapter books and then the Septimus Heap books. She lives overlooking a creek in Cornwall and loves sailing her boat, Muriel, and all things to do with the sea. She has two grown-up daughters.