Carmen Reid is a writer, journalist and mother. She is the bestselling author of How Was It For You?, Did The Earth Move?, Three In A Bed, Up All Night and The Personal Shopper for adult readers. She has also written the Secrets at St Jude's series for younger readers, which draws on her own experiences in a Scottish boarding school. After working in London as a news reporter for a decade, Carmen now lives in Glasgow with her husband and two children.