The Ghosts of Tarawera

Sue Copsey is an award-winning author of both fiction and non-fiction, mainly for children and young adults. She is best known for her series of ghostly adventure stories for older children. Sue grew up in England, in the town of Rugby, Warwickshire. Sue was a press officer at London Zoo before moving into publishing, working as a senior editor at Dorling Kindersley. Whilst at DK she wrote the international bestseller ’Children Just Like Me’, which won several awards, including the Times Educational Supplement ’Best Children’s Non-Fiction’. Sue and her husband moved to New Zealand several years ago and settled well into the Kiwi way of life. They have two children and live in Auckland. Sue now works as a freelance editor and writer and has produced more than 50 New Zealand school books, including ’Our Children Aotearoa’ (2011), which won a Storylines Notable Non-fiction award. Visit Sue at www.suecopsey.com