LT Gibbons grew up in a Victorian seaside town in North Wales called Llandudno - the holiday home of Alice Liddell, the real-life inspiration for CS Lewis's Alice in Wonderland. She has loved books ever since she could remember. Her dad used to read nightly bedtime stories to her when she was a little girl and - as soon as she could decipher the jumble of letters herself - she spent most of her childhood hidden away, curled up with a good book. She went to university in Nottingham, England - the home of legendary outlaw Robin Hood - and two years later moved to the South of France, to study Fr...