ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Biography

Ana Fischel was born in London in 1970.

She spent many happy holidays with her great aunty Cis who lived in a house called Raventhorpe, which was run as a private school.

She studied at Bassingbourn Village College (Bassingbourn, Hertfordshire), Long Road College (Cambridge) and CCAT (Cambridge).

After that she won a place at Edinburgh College of Art where she gained a 2:1 in illustration and filmmaking.

She then moved to Paris to work as an artist for a year before moving back to London.

In 1999 she gave birth to Isabella and married her husband Robert, gaining at the same time a stepdaughter, Lujzka.

Two years later they moved to Spain where they currently live in a beautiful converted river mill.

Isabella Zophie and Le Cirque de Magique is the first of seven books that the author has been planning over the past five years. The second book is due to be completed by the end of 2004 and the third will be finished mid 2005 – for further information check the monthly member's newsletter for regular up-dates on launch dates, competitions and new games.