Cressida Burton

Cressida Burton knew she wanted to be a writer when she was seven years old, and has never given up on that dream. She is now — finally — a full-time author.

She writes both dark humour about family life, friendships and relationships for grown-ups — dramedy, if you like — and inspiring junior fiction for pony-mad kids age 8 and above. Although, most of her grown-up fiction also contains a lot of horse and animal content, which can never be a bad thing.

She started riding ponies at age six, learning on a very opinionated scruffy bay Shetland called Olaf. She still loves horses dearly despite being told as a child that ponies were ‘just a phase’. She believes she has hit the deck at least 150 times in her riding career. In her most spectacular fall she demolished a triple bar in a showjumping jump-off. She knows this was her own fault as she should have had more leg on!

Her books are set in what has been given the nickname The Burtonverse by a reader who is also a friend, this being a fictional world made up from the prettiest villages and towns you could possibly imagine.

Cressida lives in the North Yorkshire Moors National Park with her husband, the redoubtable and very shy Mr B, and their big floof of an opinionated orange cat, Bilbo Baggins.