Tabitha Suzuma was born in London in 1975 to an English mother and a Japanese father, the eldest of five children. She went to the French Lycée and was a terrible pupil. She hated school, refused to work and sat at the back of the class, writing stories. When she was fourteen, she just stopped going to school - much to her teachers' relief and her parents' anguish. Ten years on she returned to the classroom, this time as a Year 1 teacher.At this point she wrote her first book, A Note of Madness. She went on to write three more books for teenagers: From Where I Stand, A Voice in the Distance and Without Looking Back. Her latest novel, FORBIDDEN, is an incestuous love story between a brother and sister.She now divides her time between writing and peripatetic teaching and is branching out into adult fiction. Tabitha has been nominated for 14 book awards of which she has won two..

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