Yaël Hassan is a French-Israeli writer born in Paris in 1952. She spent her childhood in Belgium, her adolescence in France, and her youth in Israel. She returned to France in 1984 with her family. Making the most of the time of a very long immobilization, she writes her first novel, A Grandfather Fallen from the Sky (in French Un grand-père tombé du ciel), which won the Price of the Novel Youth 1996 of the Ministry of Youth and sports and Grand prix of the young person reader de la PEEP, then the Sorceress Prize in 1998.

The daughter of a psychiatrist and a drama teacher, Lee Weatherly was born in 1967 in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. She moved to the UK in 1995, and now lives in Hampshire with her husband. Before her first book was published in 2002, Lee did a variety of different jobs, from working in a ski resort to being a secretary. But writing is what she always dreamed of, and her first book, 'Child X', was published in June 2002. It is about a thirteen-year-old girl whose father leaves home when he discovers he is not her biological father.

Boris Laskin (1914-1983) is a master of describing his characters with great humour. Unexpected meetings and funny happenings make the basis of the stories. There is from for both a laugh and a sad smile.