Toby Ibbotson is the eldest son of award-winningauthor Eva Ibbotson, whose novel The
Abominables he edited with her first publisher, Marion Lloyd, following his mother's death.
Mountwood School for Ghosts is his debut novel, from an original idea by Eva and planned out in
detail by the two of them before her death. Containing all the warmth, humour and spark of
Eva's novels for younger readers, which are being rereleased alongside this publication,
Mountwood School for Ghosts marks out Toby as an exciting new storytelling talent in the children's
book world. He lives in Sweden with his family and writes whenever he can.