Jaqs Clarke lives above an estuary on the edge of a forest,

the environment that inspired this book.The estuary is on the

outskirts of a village called Titirangi, which translates in Te Reo

Maori to mean “the fringe of heaven”. Titirangi is on the edge

of a big city, in a country on the edge of the map, and so her

publishing company Circadia Press has the byline

‘Books from the edge of the world’.

Jaqs has a PhD in the Philosophy of Architecture

from the University of Auckland, New Zealand

This is her first children’s book.