Robin Stevens grew up in Pembroke College, Oxford, where her father was Master.

She wrote her debut novel while working as a bookseller at Blackwell’s in Broad Street, Oxford.

Murder Most Unladylike, to be published next month by Corgi Children’s Books at £6.99, features Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong, aged 13, who run their very own deadly secret detective agency at Deepdean School for Girls