Lara Latcham spent much of her childhood in her parents' bookshop, the local library and acting in plays at school and the local youth theatre. Her grasp on reality hasn't ever been that firm, but she somehow managed to live and work successfully in the UK and abroad in countries as diverse as Mexico and China as well as in industries ranging from heritage and education to housing and retail. She has been writing stories and poetry since she started to write and has wanted to publish a novel since she was seven years old. With over fifty years of preparation, her first novel, Estella, is a culmination of experience, imagination and observation. Lara is a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) and finds herself in a unique position to tell people's stories with insight and compassion. She is an avid reader of novels, an enthusiastic and joyful glutton and an empathetic and compassionate listener. She's a huge fan of young people and all that they bring to the world and its future, which is useful in her job as a personal tutor at a sixth form college. She's planning to write more, read more, eat more and visit more countries.