Diya Shanmugaraj has loved listening to stories since she was little, and decided at a very early age that she would make tales of her own. Over the years, she was shortlisted for the BBC 500 words competition, and The Book of Lost Secrets is her first novel which she wrote in 2019 being 11 years old. Currently, she lives with her family in Oxfordshire with her cheeky little brother, and her two guinea pigs, Albus, and Sirius.