Before becoming a writer, Natasha Lester, was the marketing manager for Maybelline cosmetics in Australia. Her first book took five years from when she began writing until the time it was published. ‘Over those years I had three children: a daughter in 2006, another daughter in 2008 and a son in 2010,’ Natasha says. She goes on to explain how having children made her a better writer.
‘It broadened my emotional range – Ifelt fear like I’d never known before at the idea of anything bad