Be Back Soon is my next book for Andersen and is out in hardback on 5th September 2024. It has been translated into French and Danish, too.

Jenny Bloomfield has created the gorgeous illustrations. This story contains non-fiction elements about how swallows migrate. It was inspired by my Aunt Sheila who lived in South Africa and would write to me asking me to take care of the swallows and send them back to her. This was how I learnt about migration as a child, and also how I realised that we can stay connected even if we are separated by miles and miles of land and ocean. Here is the poster which inspired my aunt and uncle to emigrate to South Africa in the 1970s: