About Me

Hello, I’m Helen Lipscombe and I’m an author.

This is a bit like saying, Hello, I’m Helen, I’m the Olympic pole-vaulting champion; or Hello, I’m Helen, I’m The Queen . . . Queen Helen; it’s that brilliant.

I was born in South Wales, in a little valley cwtched between the mountains and the sea. When it was sunny, my sister and I played in the fields, and the other 360 days of the year, we read and drew and dressed up in jumble-sale hats and made up lots of stories. About once a week, I’d run away. Not because I was unhappy, but because I wanted to see the world we’d been imagining. (I never got very far. Two minutes into my adventure I’d eat the Welsh cake I’d brought for the journey, and two minutes later I’d be hungry again and run home).

When I grew up, I got a little further – to the other side of the world in fact – and had all the adventures I’d yearned for when I was little. But the pull of family (and Welsh cakes) always brought me home. I still love reading and drawing and dressing-up but most of all I love writing stories. I hope you enjoy reading them.