Kim Slater honed her storytelling skills as a child, writing macabre tales specially designed to scare her younger brother! Taking her literary inspiration from everyday life, Kim's debut novel, Smart , has won more than ten regional prizes and been shortlisted for over twenty regional and national awards, including the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the Federation of Children's Book Groups Prize. Smart was also longlisted for the 2015 CILIP Carnegie Medal. Kim lives in Nottingham with her husband and has one grown-up daughter. The Boy Who Lied is Kim's fourth novel for Macmillan Children's Books.